Abdul-Rahman bin Jubayr reported,

One day we were sitting with Miqdad bin Aswad when a man passed by him and said, "Blessed are these two eyes that saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. By Allah, we wish we had seen what you saw and witnessed what you witnessed."Miqdad became angry, and I was surprised, for the man had said nothing but good. Then Miqdad turned to him and said, "What makes a man wish to be present at a scene from which Allah kept him absent? He does not know, had he been present, how he would have fared. By Allah, people were present with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ whom Allah cast on their nostrils into Hell, for they neither answered him nor believed him. Will you not rather praise Allah that He brought you forth knowing none but your Lord, believing in what your Prophet brought, while the trial was borne by others in your stead?By Allah, Allah sent the Prophet ﷺ in the harshest condition in which any prophet was ever sent, during an interval between messengers and in an age of ignorance, when people saw no religion better than the worship of idols. So he came with a Criterion by which he distinguished truth from falsehood and separated father from son, until a man would see his father, his son, or his brother as a disbeliever while Allah had opened the lock of his own heart to faith. He knew that if his loved one died, he would enter the Fire, so his eye could find no comfort knowing that the one he loved was in the Fire. This is what Allah referred to in His words, 'Those who say, Our Lord, grant us from among our spouses and offspring comfort to our eyes' [Furqan 25:74]."

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عبد الرحمن بن جبير بن نفير عن أبيه قال

جلسنا إلى المقداد بن الأسود يوما فمر به رجل فقال طوبى لهاتين العينين اللتين رأتا رسول الله ﷺ والله لوددنا أنا رأينا ما رأيت وشهدنا ما شهدت فاستغضب فجعلت أعجب ما قال إلا خيرا ثم أقبل إليه فقال ما يحمل الرجل على أن يتمنى محضرا غيبه الله عنه لا يدري لو شهده كيف كان يكون فيه والله لقد حضر رسول الله ﷺ أقوام أكبهم الله على مناخرهم في جهنم لم يجيبوه ولم يصدقوه أولا تحمدون الله إذ أخرجكم لا تعرفون إلا ربكم مصدقين لما جاء به نبيكم قد كفيتم البلاء بغيركم والله لقد بعث الله النبي ﷺ على أشد حال بعث عليها نبي من الأنبياء في فترة وجاهلية ما يرون أن دينا أفضل من عبادة الأوثان فجاء بفرقان فرق به بين الحق والباطل وفرق بين الوالد وولده حتى إن كان الرجل ليرى والده وولده أو أخاه كافرا وقد فتح الله قفل قلبه للإيمان يعلم أنه إن هلك دخل النار فلا تقر عينه وهو يعلم أن حبيبه في النار وأنها للتي قال عز وجل {الذين يقولون ربنا هب لنا من أزواجنا وذرياتنا قرة أعين}