{"id":540,"date":"2024-08-19T14:15:54","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T14:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theillustrioussahaabah.com\/?p=540"},"modified":"2024-08-19T14:15:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T14:15:54","slug":"the-desire-of-hazrat-umar-radhiyallahu-anhu-to-blessed-with-a-room-filled-with-personalities-like-hazrat-abu-ubaidah-radhiyallahu-anhu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theillustrioussahaabah.com\/?p=540","title":{"rendered":"The Desire of Hazrat Umar (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) to Blessed with a Room Filled with Personalities like Hazrat Abu Ubaidah (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-543\" src=\"https:\/\/theillustrioussahaabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/English_81_2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theillustrioussahaabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/English_81_2-1.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/theillustrioussahaabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/English_81_2-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theillustrioussahaabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/English_81_2-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/theillustrioussahaabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/English_81_2-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/theillustrioussahaabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/English_81_2-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theillustrioussahaabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/English_81_2-1-310x310.jpg 310w, https:\/\/theillustrioussahaabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/English_81_2-1-660x660.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hazrat Umar (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) was once seated with a group of people when he addressed them and asked them the following question, \u201cTell me what desire you people have!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One person said: \u201cThe desire which I have is that this entire room be filled with dirhams (silver coins) and that I spend all of them in the path of Allah Ta\u2018ala.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hazrat Umar (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) then addressed the people and asked for a second time, \u201cTell me what desire you people have!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another person said: \u201cThe desire which I have is that this entire room be filled with gold coins and that I spend all of them in the path of Allah Ta\u2018ala.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Once again Hazrat Umar (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) addressed the people and posed the same question, \u201cTell me what desire you people have!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A third person said: \u201cThe desire which I have is that this entire room be filled with precious stones and that I spend all of them in the path of Allah Ta\u2018ala.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hazrat Umar (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) put forth the same question for the fourth time asking if anyone else had any desire, but they replied that they did not desire anything else.<\/p>\n<p>Thereupon, Hazrat Umar (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) expressed his desire saying: \u201cThe desire which I have is that this room be filled with such men, who are like Abu Ubaidah, Mu\u2018aaz bin Jabal and Huzaifah bin Yamaan (radhiyallahu \u2018anhum) so I could use each one of them in the obedience of Allah Ta\u2019ala (i.e. I could use them to serve Deen and to spread Deen in the world). (At-Taareekhus Sagheer vol. 1, pg. 79)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hazrat Umar (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) was once seated with a group of people when he addressed them and asked them the following question, \u201cTell me what desire you people have!\u201d One person said: \u201cThe desire which I have is that this entire room be filled with dirhams (silver coins) and that I spend all of them &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-english","category-other-sahaabah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theillustrioussahaabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theillustrioussahaabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theillustrioussahaabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theillustrioussahaabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theillustrioussahaabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theillustrioussahaabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":544,"href":"https:\/\/theillustrioussahaabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions\/544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theillustrioussahaabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theillustrioussahaabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theillustrioussahaabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theillustrioussahaabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}