Jubayr bin Nufayr reported,

We were sitting with Miqdad bin Aswad one day 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 astonished, for the man had said nothing but good. Then he turned to the man and said, "What drives a person to wish himself present at a scene from which Allah has kept him absent? He does not know, had he been there, how he would have fared. By Allah, there were people present with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ whom Allah cast on their nostrils into Hell because they neither answered him nor believed him. Will you not praise Allah that He brought you forth knowing none but your Lord, believing in what your Prophet brought, having been spared the trial through others?By Allah, Allah sent the Prophet ﷺ in the harshest condition in which any prophet had ever been sent, in a period of cessation and ignorance, when people considered no religion superior to the worship of idols. He came with a criterion by which he distinguished between truth and falsehood, and divided a father from his 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 not be comforted knowing his beloved was in the Fire. This is what Allah referred to when He said, "And those who say, 'Our Lord, grant us from our spouses and offspring comfort to our eyes'" [Furqan 25:74].

عن جبير بن نفير 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 يتمني محضرا غيبه الله عنه، لا يدري لو شهده كيف كان يكون فيه، والله لقد حضر رسول الله ﷺ أقوام كبهم 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 فيه 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 الله عز وجل: {والذين يقولون ربنا هب لنا من أزواجنا وذرياتنا قرة أعين}