During the time of Umar ibn Al-Khattab's caliphate, a man came to the leader of the Believers and had with him his son. There was no difference in appearance between the man and his son. Umar ibn Al-Khattab was amazed with this and said: "By Allah I have not seen anything as amazing as this. No persons looks so alike as you and your son as though you are 2 identical crows (the arabs say that the crows resemble each other the most)."
The man said: "O leader of the believer and how amazed will you be if you knew that his mother gave birth to him while she was dead!" So Umar sat up from his seat and changed his demeanor. Umar loved amazing or strange news so he said: "Tell me!"
The man said: "O leader of the believers, my wife, the mother of this boy was pregnant with him. So I announced I was going on a journey and she forbade me. From when I reached the door she insisted that I don't leave. She said how can you leave me while I am pregnant and I placed my hand on her stomach and said: "O Allah I entrust to you this boy of mine" and continued on (my journey). Ponder upon the Decree of Allah and the man not including his wife in the dua and left. So he continued on his travel as long as Allah willed.Than I returned and on my door was a plate and my son my uncles surrounded me and they informed me that my wife had died. So I said: "To Allah we belong and to Him is our return." So they took me to give me some dinner. While I was eating dinner a smoke came from a grave. I said to them: "What is this smoke?" They said: "This smoke has been coming from the grave of your wife every day, since we buried her." So I said: "By Allah I am the most knowledge of men about her! She was a fasting, upright chaste women, she never accepted evil and ordered the good and Allah will never humiliate her!" So I stood and faced her grave. When i reached her grave I began to dig until I reached her body which was sitting and this boy you see here was alive between her feet. At that moment a caller cried out "O you who entrusted Allah with a trust, take back your trust."
The scholars said: "If he had entrusted the mother of the boy to Allah he would have found her as he had entrusted her (alive). But the Decree of Allah proceed and Allah did not decree this Dua on his tongue."
Ya Allah we entrust to you our Deen. Provide us with Firmness until we meet you.
Story was narrated by Shaykh Saleh Maghamsi
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