Complaining at the Prophet’s (s.a.w.) Grave
بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Imam Abu al-Faraj ‘Abd ar-Rahman ibn ‘Ali ibn al-Jawzy ( r.a. ) wrote, in his al-Wafa bi Ahwal li al-Muswthafa’ , that Shaykh Abu Bakr al-Minqari ( q.s. ) said, “I was with ath-Thabarani and Abu ash-Shaykh in the Prophet’s Mosque, in some difficulty. We became very hungry. That day and the next, we did not eat. When it was time for ‘isha’ , I went to the Prophet’s ( s.a.w. ) grave and said, ‘O Messenger of Allah, we are hungry, we are hungry.’ Then I left. Abu ash-Shaykh said to me, ‘Sit. Either there will be food for us, or death.’ I slept and Abu ash-Shaykh slept. ath-Thabarani stayed awake, researching something. Then an ‘Alawi,” meaning a descendant of Sayyidina ‘Ali ibn Abu Thalib ( k.w. ), “came knocking at the door with two boys, each one carrying a palm-leaf basket filled with food. We sat up and ate. We thought that the children would take back the remainder, but th...