commanded me to do. I went out until I happened to come across children who had been playing in the street. In the meanwhile, the Prophet Muhammad came there and he caught me by the back of my neck from behind me.
As I looked towards him I found him smiling and he said: O little boy, did you go where I told you to go?
I said: yes, I am going.
Anas further said: I served him for ten years but I know not that he ever chastised me about a thing which I had done why I did that, or about a thing I had left as to why I had not done that.”
In another narration, Anas ibn Malik said:
“I served the Prophet Muhammad for ten years. I was a boy. Every work I did that was not according to the desire of my master, but he never said to me: Fie! nor did he say to me: Why did you do this? Or why did you not do this?”
(9) Anas Ibn Malik also said:
“No one was more beloved to us than the Prophet Muhammad; however, if we saw him we would not stand up for him for we knew how much he disliked for us to do so.
And on one occasion someone called to him saying: ‘O best of mankind …’
Muhammad replied: ‘That is the Prophet Abraham, peace is upon him’ “
Safaa Abdel-Aziz
Co-Chief Editor, October Weekly magazine, Cairo, Egypt.
Member of the Egyptian Society of Save Children.
Member of the Egyptian Society of Tourism