Anas ibn Malik reported: We were sitting with the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and he said, “A man from the people of Paradise is coming to you.” A man from the Ansar came, his beard disheveled by the water of ablution, and he was carrying both of his shoes with his left hand. The next day, the Prophet repeated the same words, and the man came in the same condition. On the third day, the Prophet repeated the same words again, and the man came in the same condition again. When the Prophet stood up to leave, Abdullah ibn Amr followed the man and said to him, “I am in an argument with my father, and I have sworn not to enter my home for three days. May I stay with you?” The man said yes. Abdullah stayed three nights with the man, but he never saw him praying at night. Whenever he went to bed, the man would remember Allah and rest until he woke up for morning prayer. Abdullah said that he had never heard anything but good words coming from his mouth. When three nights had passed, and he did not see anything special about his actions, Abdullah asked him, “O servant of Allah, I have not been in an argument with my father, nor have I cut off relations with him. I heard the Prophet say three times that a man from the people of Paradise was coming to us, and then you came. I thought I would stay with you to see what you are doing that I could follow, but I did not see you do many good deeds. Why did the Prophet convey this about you?” The man said, “There is nothing else but what you see here, except that I find no malevolence within myself towards the Muslims, nor do I envy anyone for the good that Allah has given them.” Abdullah said, “This is what was conveyed about you, but it is something we have been unable to do.”
