‘O evil Shaykh (old man), Do you know why I forgave you?’

‘O evil Shaykh (old man), Do you know why I forgave you?’

Abu Bakr as-Saidalaani reported that he heard Salim bin Mansur bin ‘Ammar say,

“Upon seeing my father in a dream, I asked him, ‘What did your Lord do with you?’

He answered : ‘Indeed, my Lord drew me near and close and he said to me:

‘O evil Shaykh (old man), Do you know why I forgave you?’

I said: ‘No, O my Lord.’

He said : ‘You sat before people in a gathering one day and you made them cry.

Among them was one of my slaves who had never before cried from fear of me and so I forgave him and forgave everyone in the gathering for him; and you were among the ones I donated to him (among the ones that I forgave for him)’

(Sifatus-Safwah 2/ 204)