In section six, take note of an indispensable point:
The first wording—“iʿṣimnī” (protect me)—is related by Ibn Mājah and, in one narration, by Ibn al-Sunnī.
The second—“ajirnī” (grant me refuge)—is reported by al-Ḥākim and al-Bayhaqī.
The third—“aʿidhnī” (shelter me)—appears in another narration of Ibn al-Sunnī.
These are simply variant expressions transmitted by different narrators; sometimes one version was cited, sometimes another, and I have found no decisive reason to favor any of them over the others.
- He should leave the mosque intending to return, hoping thereby to be among the seven whom the Messenger of Allah ﷺ mentioned when he said:
“Seven people Allah will shade [on the Day of Resurrection] with His shade (in another narration: with the shade of His Throne) on a day when there is no shade except His:
• a just ruler;
• a youth who grew up worshipping Allah [and remained upon that until death];
• a man whose heart is attached to the mosque (in one wording: as though his heart hangs in the mosque; another narration adds: out of love for it) whenever he leaves it until he comes back;
• two men who love one another for the sake of Allah, meeting and parting upon that love;
• a man who remembers Allah in private (in one wording: in solitude) and his eyes overflow with tears [out of fear of Allah];
• a man whom a woman of status (in another wording: of noble lineage) and beauty invites to herself, yet he says, ‘I fear Allah’;
• and a man who gives charity so secretly that his left hand does not know what his right hand spends (in one wording: he gives charity as though concealing his right hand from his left)."