Anas bin Maalik
(may Allaah be pleased with him) narrated: “The Messenger of Allaah
(sallallaahu alayhi wasallam) said, ‘No Prophet among the Prophets was believed
the way I was believed. Indeed, there was one of the Prophets whom no one among
his Ummah believed in except one person.”
Saheeh, as-Saheehah no. 397
Shaykh al-Albaanee
(may Allaah have mercy on him) commented: This hadeeth contains a clear proof
that multitude and fewness of followers is not a yardstick for knowing whether
a caller [or scholar] is upon the truth or falsehood. In spite of the fact that
the da’wah and religion of these Prophets (alayhimus-salaatu was-salaam)
is one, they differ in terms of the number of their followers so much so that there
was a Prophet among them no one accepted except one person; in fact, there was
one who had no one with him.
So in that is
an instructive lesson to the caller and the called in this era. A caller should
take note of this reality and go ahead in the way of his call to Allaah the
exalted; and he should not bother about the paucity of those who respond to him
because there is nothing upon him except to convey the message in the clearest
way. He has an excellent example in the previous Prophets, one of whom had no
one with him except one or two men.
The called
should not feel lonely on account of the fewness of those who respond to the
caller and use that as the reason for doubting the da’wah of truth and
abandoning faith in it, let alone use it as a proof of considering his da’wah
false under the pretence that no one is following him or only few people are
following him, or [say that] if his da’wah were to be true, majority of
the people would have followed him! But Allaah
the Mighty and Majestic said, “And most of
mankind will not believe even if you desire it eagerly”[1]
Source: Nudhum al-Faraa’id mimma fee Silsilati
al-Albaanee min Fawaa’id, vol. 2, p. 289-290 by Abdul-Lateef bin Muhammad bin Ahmad bin Abee
Rabee’
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