ʿUmar and His Neighbor Alternating Days to Seek Knowledge

Translated by Riḍwān Aḥmad (3rd Year Alim Student, DarusSalam Seminary)

In his Ṣaḥīḥ, in Bāb al-Tanāwub fī al-ʿIlm from Kitāb al-ʿIlm and in Bāb Mawʿiẓatu al-Rajul Ibnatahū from Kitāb al-Nikāḥ, Imām Bukhārī related on the authority of ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb (Allāh be pleased with him) the he said:

“A neighbor of mine and I would alternate the days in which we would go to Allāh’s Messenger (peace and blessings upon him). He would visit him on one day and I would visit him on the other. On my day, I would return and bring my neighbor news of the Revelation of that day and other events that happened. And when he visited, he would do the same.”

(Ṣafaḥāt fī Ṣabr al-ʿUlamāʾ, 43)