Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 37031 — Reports from our Prophet

Abu Sufyan, relating from his teachers, said: Sayyiduna Sa'd bin Abi Waqqas (may Allah be pleased with him) went to visit Sayyiduna Salman (may Allah be pleased with him) in his illness, and he began to weep. The narrator said: Sayyiduna Sa'd (may Allah be pleased with him) asked him: What has made you weep? For the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) passed away while he was pleased with you, and you will (on the Day of Resurrection) have the honour of meeting him and will come to him at the Pool of Kawthar. Sayyiduna Salman (may Allah be pleased with him) replied: I am not weeping out of dread of death or attachment to the world; rather (what grieves me is that) the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) enjoined us (with this): Your subsistence should depend only on as much as the provision of a rider (a traveller). Yet around me are these dark things (which exceed a traveller's provision). The narrator said: Yet he had with him only a pillow, a large bowl and a water vessel. Then Sa'd (may Allah be pleased with him) said: O Abu Abdullah! Give us an instruction too, that we may hold to after you. He said: O Sa'd! Remember Allah Almighty (especially on three occasions): (first) when you intend to do something, (second) when you are about to give a judgement, and (third) when you are about to make a distribution (among partners, in which equality is legally required).