{"id":11983,"date":"2015-11-17T04:43:15","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T04:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/new\/?p=11983"},"modified":"2018-02-05T05:06:05","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T05:06:05","slug":"its-only-a-sunnah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/?p=11983","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s only a Sunnah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Once Imaam Abu Dawood (rahimahullah), who\u2019s \u201cSunan\u201d is one of the six classical books of hadeeth, was on board a ship. He heard a person on the shore sneezing and saying \u201cAlhamdulillah\u201d (all praise is due to Allah). So he hired a rowing boat for one dirham (silver coin) and went to shore to reply to this person by saying \u201cYarhamukallah\u201d (may Allah have mercy on you), as is the sunnah of Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam). When he was asked about this action of his, he replied: \u201cIt is possible that this person who sneezed is a person whose supplication is accepted by Allah Ta\u2018ala.\u201d When the people on board the ship fell asleep, they heard someone calling out: \u201cO people of the ship! Surely Abu Dawood purchased paradise from Allah Ta\u2018ala for one dirham.\u201d (Risaalatul Mustarshideen pg. 157)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Lesson: <\/strong>Despite the great services which he rendered to Islam, a \u201csmall\u201d sunnah like this became the means of his entry into Jannah. We cannot regard any good deed as small or any sin as trivial. Every good deed has the potential of securing us a place in Jannah, while every sin has the possibility of landing us into eternal ruin and misery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspirational-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11984,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11983\/revisions\/11984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alhaadi.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}