and make us a model for the righteous.” [Al-Furqān 25:74]
He, the Exalted, also said: “And We appointed them leaders who guided by Our command.” [Al-Anbiyāʾ 21:73]
176 – Abū ʿAmr Jarrīr ibn ʿAbd-Allāh (may Allah be pleased with him) said:
“We were with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ in the early part of the day when a group of destitute men arrived. They were virtually naked, wearing patched wool cloaks or mantles with openings cut at the top, and carrying swords. Most of them—indeed all of them—were from the tribe of Muḍar. The face of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ changed when he saw the hardship they were suffering (1). He went indoors and then came out, ordered Bilāl to give the call to prayer and the iqāmah, performed the prayer, and then delivered a sermon. He recited: ‘O people, fear your Lord who created you from a single soul…’ to the end of the verse, ‘Indeed Allah is ever Watchful over you’ [Al-Nisāʾ 4:1]; and the other verse at the end of Sūrat al-Ḥashr: ‘O you who believe, fear Allah, and let every soul look to what it has sent ahead for tomorrow’ [Al-Ḥashr 59:18].
Then he urged: ‘Let a man give in charity—from his dinar, from his dirham, from his garment, from a sāʿ of wheat, from a sāʿ of dates’—and he continued—‘even with half a date.’
A man from the Anṣār then came with a purse that his hand could hardly hold—indeed, it failed to hold it. The people followed suit until I saw two heaps of food and clothing, and I saw the face of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ beaming as though it were overlaid with gold.
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: ‘Whoever inaugurates a good practice in Islam will have its reward and the reward of all who act upon it after him, without their rewards being diminished in the least; and whoever inaugurates an evil practice in Islam will bear its burden and the burden of all who act upon it after him, without their burdens being diminished in the least.’ Narrated by Muslim.
His phrase “mujtābī an-namār” is spelled with a jīm followed by a single bāʾ after the alif; an-namār is the plural of namira, a striped woollen cloak. Mujtābīhā means “wearing them after having cut an opening at the top for the head.” The root jawb means “to cut,” as in His saying, “and Thamūd, who carved out the rocks in the valley” [Al-Fajr 89:9], meaning they hewed and cut them. His word “tamaʿʿara” is spelled with an un-dotted ʿayn: