Hadith No: 2
Al-Safadi - Al-Wafi bil-Wafayat
Volume: (16) - Page Number: (288)
- Abu al-Hasan al-Mada'ini
narrated from Salih ibn Hasan, who said: "We performed Hajj during the time of al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik, and there were several effeminate men among us throwing pebbles, including Tawis and al-Dallal." And when Tawis was throwing the pebbles with a Sulaimani drink mixed with saffron, he was asked, "What do you intend by this, O Abu Abd al-Mu'min?" He replied, "A hand that belonged to Iblis was with me, and I wanted to repay him for it." We said, "And what was his hand with you?" He said, "This desire was made beloved to me, and I would not be pleased with it over the spear of Marwan ibn al-Hakam or the shelter of Amr ibn al-As in Ta'if. I indeed asked Iblis about this desire, saying, 'Does it have a limit?'" He replied, "Yes, if you know that a man will not leave anything for the sake of Allah that he is forbidden, except that he will engage in it, nor leave anything that he is commanded, except that he will do it, then approach him and give him this pleasure." I said, "My only need is that it not be taken from me, O Salih, what you have given me." He said, "Enough, O Abu Abd al-Mu'min, and you are with me in a state of preparation." Then some of his brothers entered upon him and found that he had written on the wall of his house: "Adam loved a thousand Hawas." They said to him, "Why have you written this?" He replied, "So that Iblis does not enter upon us." They said, "O fool, Iblis entered upon Adam and Hawwa in Paradise and expelled them; will he not enter upon us?"