The Holy Prophet Muhammad (sa) used to keep an eye on the good deeds of his companions for mankind and encouraged this sentiment. One day, he asked his companions if anyone of them was fasting on that day. Hazrat Abu Bakr (ra) replied in the affirmative. Then the Holy Prophet Muhammad (sa) asked if anyone of them had visited an ill person? Hazrat Abu Bakr (ra) again replied, ‘Yes’. The Holy Prophet Muhammad (sa) asked again if anyone had offered funeral prayers for a Muslim brother? The third time, Hazrat Abu Bakr (ra) was the one who had performed this prayer. For the fourth time, the Holy Prophet Muhammad (sa) asked if anyone had fed a poor person. Hazrat Abu Bakr (ra) replied, ‘Yes, I had the good fortune to do this’. The Holy Prophet Muhammad (sa) observed that the person who had performed all those good deeds in one day would enter paradise.
…The Holy Prophet Muhammad (sa) advised his companions to visit the ill people as this is a right of a Muslim brother. He not only visited the important people like the chief of Ansar, Hazrat Sa‘d bin Ubadah (ra) or Sa‘d bin Abi Waqqas (ra), a senior companion, he also visited young men, children and Bedouins. He went to see his uncle Abu Talib and also a Jewish slave. Jabir bin Abdullah (ra) was a young companion of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (sa). His father was martyred in the Battle of Uhud. He always remembered that once when he fell ill and had fainted, the Holy Prophet Muhammad (sa) came to see him on foot accompanied by Hazrat Abu Bakr (ra) and Hazrat Umar (ra).
Muhammad (sa)– The Perfect Man (Qadian, India: Nazarat Isha’at, 2015), 271-272.
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