The
Evil End of A Woman Who Lodged A False
Litigation against Hazrat Saeed
bin Zayd
Many other cases of prompt visitation on men who sneered at and pestered
the Holy Prophet
have been recorded in books of biography. Those apart, when even a little
annoyance and pain was caused to his lovers and devotees of his Sunnahs,
Allah Most High, according to His declaration, "Whoever nurses enmity against
any one of My saints, to him is given an ultimatum of war from Me,” which
destroyed their enemies immediately. Such a case is reported by Hazrat
Orwah bin Zubayr that when a dispute arose between Sa'eed bin Zayd bin
Umar and Arwah bint Aws, she took the case to Merwan bin al-Hakam.
The claim was that Sa'eed bin Zayd had misappropriated some of Arwah's
land. Sa'eed bin Zayd said: "How could I usurp her land while I have heard
the Holy Prophet's
hadith!” Merwan asked him what he had heard. He said: "I have heard the
Holy Prophet
say that whoever usurps even a span of land of anyone, on the Day of Judgement
a collar of that much measurement of all the seven layers of the earth
will be put around his neck". Hearing this Hadith, Merwan said: "Now I
will not ask you to produce any other witness in this litigation.”
Hazrat Sa'eed invoked a curse saying: "O Allah! If this woman is a liar,
make her blind and give her death in her own land.” The narrator reports
that she did not die as long as she did not become blind, and the other
part of the curse was fulfilled thus that one day she was walking on her
land when she fell into a ditch and died.
A tradition is also related in Muslim Sharif. Its narrator reports:
"I saw that she had become blind and used to beg small coins from the people
and used to say: 'Hazrat Sa'eed's curse has befallen me'. And one day when
she was passing by a well in the same land for which she had sued Hazrat
Sa'eed, she accidentally fell into it and the same well became her grave".
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