Hadith 31

And he said as well in a report –
‘Muawiya Bin Abu Sufyan said, ‘I would love to meet a man upon whom old age has come up and he has seen the people, to inform us about what he has seen’. It was said to him, ‘This man at Hazramaut (Yemen)’. He sent for him, so he came to him. He said to him, ‘What is your name? ’ He said, ‘Amad’. He said, ‘Son of who? ’ He said, ‘Son of Labad’. He said, ‘What has come upon you from the years? ’ He said, ‘Three hundred and sixty (360) years’. He said, ‘You are lying’. Then Muawiya became pre-occupied from him. Then he came back to him after that and said to him, ‘What is your name? ’ He said, ‘Amad’. He said, ‘Son of who’. He said, ‘Son of Labad’. He said, ‘What has come upon you from the years? ’ He said, ‘Three hundred and sixty years’. He said, ‘Inform us about what you have seen from the times of the past up to this time from that’. He said, ‘O commander of the faithful! And how come you are asking the one you have belied? ’ He said, ‘I am not belying you, but I loved to know how your mind was’. He said, ‘A day resembles a day and a night resembles a night. A dead one dies and a new-born is born, and had it not been for the ones dying, the earth would not have been sufficiently capacious for them, and had it not been for the ones being born, there would not remain anyone upon the surface of the earth’. He said, ‘Inform me! Did you see Hashim-as? ’ He said, ‘Yes, I saw a talk man, beautiful face. It is said there was a white spot between his eyes, or the beginning of a spot’. He said, ‘Did you see Umayya? ’ He said, ‘Yes, I saw a short man, blind. It is said there was a mark or a mixture (of it), in his face’. He said, ‘Did you see Muhammad-saww? ’ He said, ‘Who Muhammad-saww? ’ He said, ‘Rasool-Allah-saww’. He said, ‘Woe be unto you! Can’t you value him-saww as Allah-azwj has Valued him-saww? ’ He said, ‘I did say ‘Rasool-Allah-saww’! ’ He said, ‘Inform me! What used to be your work? ’ He said, ‘I was a trader’. He said, ‘So what reached in your trading? ’ He said, ‘I did not conceal a fault nor return a profit’. Muawiya said, ‘Ask me’. He said, ‘I ask you, if you could enter me into the Paradise’. He said, ‘That isn’t in my hands nor am I able upon it’. He said, ‘So, I ask you if you could return my youth unto me’. He said, ‘That isn’t in my hands nor am I able upon it’. He said, ‘Then, I do not see anything with you, neither from the matters of the world nor from the matters of the Hereafter, so return me to where I have come from’. He said, ‘As for this, so yes’. Then Muawiya said faced towards his gatherers and said, ‘This ascetic has already become in what you are still being desirous in’’. [130]