One of the wicked unbelievers named Abu Loolu Firawz (a fire worshipper) attacked Farooq-e-A’zam رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ with a dagger during Salat-ul-Fajr. He    رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ succumbed to the fatal injury and received the honour of martyrdom on the third day of the attack. At the time of his death he was 63 years old.

Sayyiduna Suhayb رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ led his funeral Salah. On Sunday, the 1^st of Muharram-ul-Haraam, 24 Hijri, this great companion of the Greatest Prophet was buried beside Sayyiduna Abu Bakr Siddeeq رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ who was resting beside the Beloved and Blessed Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم.

(Ar-Riyad-un-Nadarah fi Manaqib Al-Asharah, vol. 1, pp. 285, 408, 418)

May Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ bless them and forgive us without any accountability for   their sake!

شہادت اے خدا عطار کو دیدے مدینے میں              کرم فرما اِلٰہی! واسطہ فاروقِ اعظم کا

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب       صَلَّى اللّٰهُ تَعَالٰى عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

Dear Islamic brothers! One’s love to his parents, siblings, children, wealth and property is natural. If any person forgets any of his relative or family member and stop loving him then it would not damage his Iman, his Iman will remain intact because Iman does not entail their love whereas having faith in the Noblest Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم, having honour and deep reverence and having devotional love for him is ‘جُزۡوِ لَا يَنۡفَك’ i.e., inevitable and unpreventable element for his Deen. So, it is of great importance for the true Muslim to have devotion towards the Noblest Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم more than any relation and any dearer thing of the world.

Dearer to everything

A beautiful Hadees is reported in Sahih Bukhari: Sayyiduna ‘Abdullah Bin Hishaam رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ narrated: We were sitting in the blessed company of the Beloved Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم, who was holding the hand of Sayyiduna