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in his dream saying to him, “
O, Bilal!
How is it that you never visit me.
”
No sooner did Bilal [r] get up than
he set out for Madinah. On reaching
there, Hasan and Husayn [r], the
Prophet’s [s] grandsons, requested
him to call out the
Adhan
. He could
not refuse them, for they were very
dear to him. But as soon as the
Adhan was called, the people of
Madinah cried openly out of their
sadness at the memory of the
happy old days of the Prophet’s [s]
time. Bilal [r] could not bear this and
left Madinah again after a few days.
The years passed, until one day in
the twentieth year after the Hijrah,
Bilal [r] became seriously ill. His
face became pale and his eyes
clouded over. His wife asked him,
“
How are you feeling today?
”
“
Death is approaching,
” came the
reply.
Bilal opened his eyes and said to
