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The Meeting of the Beloved ﷺ with al Khiḍr ʿalayhi ‘s-salām and ʿĪsā ʿalayhi ‘s-salām | Excerpts from Imām Jalāl al Dīn al Suyūṭī’s al Khaṣāʾiṣ al Kubrā

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① Ibn ʿAdī and al Bayhaqī narrated from Kathīr b. ʿAbdiLlāh b. ʿAmr b. ʿAwf, from his father, from his grandfather who said: “The Emissary of Allāh ﷺ was in the mosque and heard a speech from behind him and the one who spoke said: ‘O Allāh, aid me with what will save me from…

…what You frightened me.’ The Emissary of Allāh ﷺ upon hearing that said: ‘Won’t you combine it with its counterpart?’ The man then said: ‘O Allāh, grant me the sustenance of the yearning of the pious for what You yearned for them.’ The Prophet ﷺ said to Anas:…

…‘Go to him and say: ‘The Emissary of Allāh ﷺ said to you: ‘Seek forgiveness for me’.’ Anas went and told him [what the Emissary of Allāh ﷺ said], and the man said: ‘O Anas, you are the emissary of the Emissary of Allāh ﷺ to me?’ He replied: ‘Yes.’ He then said: ‘Go and say…

…to him: ‘Verily, Allāh prefer you over all prophets the likes of the preference of Ramaḍān over all months. And the preference of the your community over other communities is the likes of the preference of Jumuʿah over all days.’ So, he went to look at him and…

…saw that he was al Khiḍr ʿalayhi ‘s-salām.”

② al Dāraquṭnī in al Afrād, al Ṭabarānī in al Awsaṭ, and Ibn ʿAsākir narrated through three paths from Anas who said: “I went out with the Prophet ﷺ one night and was carrying a detergent. And he heard someone said: ‘O Allāh,…

…aid me with what will save me from what You frightened me.’ The Emissary of Allāh ﷺ said: ‘O Anas! Put down the detergent and go to this person and say to him: ‘Supplicate for the Emissary of Allāh ﷺ that he is assisted with what he was sent with, and supplicate for…

…his community that they take what the prophets brought to them from the truth.’ So, I went to him and said to him [what the Emissary of Allāh ﷺ said]. He then said: ‘Welcome, O emissary of the Emissary of Allāh! It is more worthy of me to go to him [rather than him ﷺ comes…

…to me]. Send my greetings to the Emissary of Allāh ﷺ and say to him: ‘al Khiḍr send his greetings upon you and he said to you: ‘Verily, Allāh prefer you over all prophets the likes of the preference of Ramaḍān over all months. And the preference of the your community over…

…other communities is the likes of the preference of Jumuʿah over all days.’ When I turned away, I heard him said: ‘O Allāh, make me from this community that is blessed upon and repentant.’”

③ Ibn ʿAdī and Ibn ʿAsākir narrated from Anas who said: “We were with the Emissary…

…of Allāh ﷺ when we saw a garment and a hand. We said: ‘O Emissary of Allāh! What is this garment and hand that we are seeing?’ He asked: ‘Have you seen it?’ We replied: ‘Yes.’ He said: ‘That was ʿĪsā ibn Maryam greeting me.’”