Jami` at-Tirmidhi 3535

Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.

Ibn Abi ‘Umar narrated to us; Sufyan narrated to us, from ‘Asim ibn Abi al-Najud, from Zirr ibn Hubaysh, who said: I went to Safwan ibn ‘Assal al-Muradi to ask him about wiping over the leather socks. He said, ‘What brings you here, Zirr?’ I said, ‘Seeking knowledge.’ He said, ‘The angels lower their wings for the seeker of knowledge, pleased with what he seeks.’ I said, ‘I have a concern about wiping over the leather socks after defecation and urination. You were one of the Companions of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), so I came to ask whether you heard him say anything about it.’ He replied, ‘Yes. When we were traveling, he would instruct us not to remove our leather socks for three days and nights, except in the case of major ritual impurity; we did not remove them for defecation, urination, or sleep.’ I asked, ‘Did you hear him say anything about love?’ He replied, ‘Yes. We were traveling with the Prophet when a Bedouin called to him in a booming voice, “Muhammad!” The Messenger of Allah answered him in a similarly loud voice, “Here I am!” We said, “Woe to you! Lower your voice, for you are with the Prophet, and you have been forbidden to do that.” He said, “By Allah, I will not lower it.” The Bedouin then said, “A person may love a people without having joined them.” The Prophet said, “A person will be with the one he loves on the Day of Resurrection.” He continued speaking to us until he mentioned a gate toward the west, whose width—or the distance a rider would travel across it—is forty or seventy years. Sufyan said: “It is toward Syria. Allah created it open on the day He created the heavens and the earth”—meaning open for repentance—“and it will not be closed until the sun rises through it.” Abu ‘Isa said: ‘This is a hasan sahih hadith.’