The Beauty of the Righteous and Ranks of the Elite pdf book

The Beauty of the Righteous and Ranks of the Elite (Hilyatul awliya wa tabaqat al-asfiya) by Abu Naim al-Isfahani

The Beauty of the Righteous and Ranks of the Elite

This book comprises selected narrations of some of the early companions of God’s messenger upon whom be peace, and their status and signs. 

From the numerous prophetic sayings and those of the blessed companions of God’s messenger quoted in this book, the reader 

will acknowledge that it is only by the grace of Allah that such blessed beings have recognized the signs of their Lord, and only through His guidance that they have forsaken the common to seek the uncommon, and intelligibly, they have departed from the ephemeral to pursue the eternal. 

In fact, these most blessed human beings have renounced the company of the affected, the indolent and the ostentatious ones, and they longed for the company of their Lord and His blessings in the thither life 1 to come (Arb. Akhira). 

‘Abdullah bin Mas’oud narrated that God’s messenger once said to his companions: “What will you do when a calamity will strike at you and people come to adopt innovations, claiming them to be prophetic traditions, — innovations the young will grow too 

1 Arb. Akhira: The conclusion of life in this world and proceeding to the predestined 

life thereafter. 

The hereafter is the commonly used term in modern English to describe 

the end of life in this world, and the beginning of a permanent existence thereafter.