Anas reports that when Salmân
[Al-Fârsî] – Allâh be pleased with him – was ill, Sa’d visited him and found
him crying, so he asked him:
“O my brother, what makes you cry? Did
you not accompany the Messenger of Allâh – Allah’s (peace and blessings be upon
him)? Did you not do such-and-such [good deeds]? He replied, “I am not crying
over any one of two things: I am not crying out of love and yearning for this
world nor out of dislike for the Hereafter, but I am crying because
