*The Ulul-Albab: People of Deep Faith and Reflection...*
قال مجاهد رحمه الله
مَرَرْتُ مَعَ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ بِخَرِبَةٍ، فَقَالَ: يَا مُجَاهِدُ، نَادِ: يَا خَرِبَةُ، أَيْنَ أَهْلُكِ؟ أَوْ قَالَ: مَا فَعَلَ أَهْلُكِ؟ قَالَ: فَنَادَيْتُ، فَقَالَ ابْنُ عُمَرَ: ذَهَبُوا، وَبَقِيَتْ أَعْمَالُهُمْ
Mujaahid relates that he was travelling with Abdullaah bin Umar R.A. when they happened to pass a desolate area
🌷 _Abdullaah bin Umar said to him, "Say; O desolate land! What has happened to those who resided on you?"_
_Mujaahid said, "O desolate land! What has happened to those who resided on you?"_
_*Abdullah bin Umar said, "They might all have passed on but their actions still remain."*_
📚 Reference
This report is attributed to Mujāhid رحمه الله and is recorded in Ḥilyat al-Awliyāʾ wa-Ṭabaqāt al-Aṣfiyāʾ by Abū Nuʿaym al-Aṣfahānī. The wording is also reproduced in later biographical collections.
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In another narration, 'Abdullah ibn 'Umar (رض) used to go out of the city into some wilderness with the express purpose of training and teaching his heart.
_When he reached there, he would ask the spot of land_
_*"Where are those who lived here?"*_
After that he would answer his own question by saying:
_*"Everything must perish save the presence of His being." (Ibn Kathir) *_
▪ This was how he summoned and preserved the remembrance of Afterlife in his heart.
_ [Excerpt from Ma'ariful Qur'an - Surah 3 - Aal-i-Imraan - Ayah 191] _
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