In the Shade of the Green Dome

dispersed from the meeting nor had there been any further conversation than the [blind] man returned in a state where he had no affliction of his eyes [he had had full restoration of his vision] (Ibn Maja, page 100).

Sayyidina Sahl � narrated: a woman brought a woven sheet with an edging [border] to the Holy Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬and said, ‘I have woven it with my own hands and I have brought it so that you may wear it’. The Holy Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬accepted it, and at that time he was in need of it. So he came out wearing it as his waist-sheet.

A companion (either Abdur Rahman bin ‘Auf � or Sa’d bin Abi Waqas �) praised it and said, ‘How nice it is! Will you give it to me?’ The other people said to him, ‘You have not acted right, knowing that the Holy Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬never turns down a request you asked for it.’ The companion replied, "By Allah, I have not asked for it to wear it but to make it my [consecrated] shroud." Later that sheet was his shroud (Bukhari, hadith 1277).

Clearly, he had asked the Holy Prophet ‫ ﷺ‬for the sheet so that he would make that his shroud in the belief that it would serve to lessen the hardships of the grave and elevate his status in the life hereafter. This is what is meant by being blessed through recourse to the belongings of the righteous and pious souls. One should bear in mind that Sayyidina Abdur Rahman bin ‘Auf � and Sa’d bin Abi Waqas � were amongst the ashra-e-mubashira (the ten companions who were guaranteed Paradise by the Holy Prophet ‫)ﷺ‬.