the mosque?” They replied, “Yes, O Messenger of Allah, we do wish that.” He said, “Banū Salimah, stay where you are; your footsteps are recorded. Stay where you are; your footsteps are recorded.” Related by Muslim. In another wording: “For every step there is a rank.” Also related by Muslim.

140 – Al-Bukhārī likewise transmitted the same meaning from the narration of Anas (may Allah be pleased with him).

“Banū Salimah,” with a kasrah on the lām, is a well-known clan of the Anṣār (may Allah be pleased with them). “Āthāruhum” means their strides.

141 – Twenty-first: Abū al-Mundhir Ubayy ibn Kaʿb (may Allah be pleased with him) said: “There was a man—I do not know anyone who lived farther from the mosque than he—yet he never missed a single prayer. I, or someone else, said to him, ‘Why not buy a donkey to ride in the dark and in the blazing heat?’ He replied, ‘I would not like my house to be next to the mosque. I wish my walking to the mosque and my return to my family to be written for me.’ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, ‘Allah has combined all of that for you.’” Related by Muslim.

In another wording: “You will have whatever you anticipated.” (2) “Al-ramḍāʾ” is ground that has been struck by intense heat.

142 – Twenty-second: Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Forty qualities, the highest of which is lending a she-goat for its milk—whoever practices any one of them, hoping for its reward and believing its promise, Allah will, because of it, admit him into Paradise.” Related by al-Bukhārī.

“Al-manīḥah” is to give the animal so that one may drink its milk and then return it to its owner.