Mukhtasar Muslim

‘Umm al-Mu’minin Aisha Siddiqa (may Allah be pleased with her) says that she asked the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), “O Messenger of Allah! Has there been a day more severe upon you than the day of Uhud?” The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) replied, “I have faced much hardship from your people (meaning the tribe of Quraysh), and the most severe distress I faced was on the day of ‘Aqabah, when I presented myself to the son of ‘Abd Yalil (meaning, I invited him to Islam), but he did not accept what I said. I left, and my face was full of sorrow and grief. I did not come to my senses (meaning, I kept walking in the same distress) until I reached (the place of) Qarn al-Tha‘alib. I raised my head and saw that a piece of cloud was shading me, and in it was Jibril. He called me and said, ‘Allah, Glorified and Exalted, has heard what your people have said to you and how they have responded to you. He has sent the Angel of the Mountains to you so that you may command him as you wish.’ Then the Angel called me, greeted me with peace, and said, ‘O Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon you)! Allah has heard what your people have said to you. I am the Angel of the Mountains, and my Lord has sent me to you so that you may command me as you wish. So, what do you wish?’ If you wish, I will bring together the two mountains (meaning Abu Qubays and the mountain opposite it in Mecca) upon them (and crush them).’ The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said, ‘(I do not wish for that), rather I hope that Allah will bring forth from their descendants those who will worship Allah alone and not associate anything with Him.’ (SubhanAllah, what compassion the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) had for his Ummah. They caused him distress, yet he was willing to bear hardship for them.)