On the Authority of Abu Musa Al Ash’aree
رضي اللّه عنـه said:
“We prayed Maghrib
with the Messenger (صلّى اللَّهُ عليه وسلّم) and
we said,’ let us sit so as to pray with him the Isha prayer’, so we sat. Then
he صلّى اللَّهُ عليه وسلّم came out to us and said : “You have
remained here?” So we said: O Messenger of Allaah we prayed Maghrib with you,
and we said: ‘we will stay with you until we pray Isha.’ He said: “You have
done well.” Then he
(صلّى
اللَّهُ عليه وسلّم) raised his head to the sky, and he used to raise his head
often to the sky and said: “The stars are a
protection for the sky, and when the stars are gone whatever happens to the sky
happens to it, and I am a safety for my companions, and when I go away whatever
is promised for them will come to pass, and my companions are a safety for my
Ummah and when my companions go away whatever is promised to my Ummah will come
to pass.”
(Narrated in
Saheeh Muslim)
