Shahih Muslim - 4596

Telah menceritakan kepada kami [Abu Bakr bin Abu Syaibah] dan [Ishaq bin Ibrahim] dan ['Abdullah bin 'Umar bin Aban] seluruhnya dari [Husain] dia berkata; [Abu Bakr] Telah menceritakan kepada kami [Husain bin 'Ali Al Ju'fi] dari [Mujamma' bin Yahya] dari [Sa'id bin Abu Burdah] dari [Abu Burdah] dari [Bapaknya] dia berkata; "Kami pernah melaksanakan shalat berjama'ah bersama Rasulullah shallallahu 'alaihi wasallam. Kemudian kami berkata; 'Sebaiknya kami duduk bersama Rasulullah shallallahu 'alaihi wasallam sambil menunggu waktu shalat Isya'. Bapak Abu Burdah berkata; 'Kami duduk-duduk di masjid, kemudian Rasulullah shallallahu 'alaihi wasallam mendatangi kami seraya bertanya: 'Kalian masih di sini? ' Kami menjawab, Benar ya Rasulullah! Kami telah melaksanakan shalat Maghrib berjamaah bersama engkau. Oleh karena itu kami memilih untuk duduk-duduk di masjid sambil menunggu shalat Isya berjamaah dengan engkau." Rasulullah pun berkata: "Kalian benar-benar te! ah melakukan kebaikan." Lalu Rasulullah mengangkat kepalanya ke atas dan berkata: 'Bintang-bintang ini merupakan stabilisator langit. Apabila bintang-bintang tersebut hilang, maka langit akan tertimpa apa yang telah dijanjikan. Aku adalah penenteram para sahabatku. Kalau aku sudah tidak ada, maka mereka, para sahabatku, akan tertimpa apa yang telah dijanjikan. Para sahabatku adalah penenteram umatku. Apabila para sahabatku telah tiada, maka umatku pasti akan tertimpa apa yang telah dijanjikan kepada mereka." (HR. Muslim: 4596)

Abu Burda reported on the authority of his father: We offered the sunset prayer along with Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him). We then said: If we sit (along with Allah's Messenger) and observe night prayer with him it would be very good, so we sat down and he came to us and said: You are still sitting here. I said: Allah's Messenger, we observed evening prayer with you, then we said: Let us sit down and observe night prayer along with you, whereupon he said: You have done well or you have done right. He then lifted his head towards the sky and it often happened that as he lifted his head towards the sky, he said: The stars are a source of security for the sky and when the stars disappear there comes to the sky, i. e. (it meets the same fate) as it has been promised (it would plunge into darkness). And I am a source of safety and security to my Companions and when I would go away there would fall to the lot (of my Companions) as they have been promised with and my Companions are a source of security for the Umma and as they would go there would fall to the lot of my Umma as (its people) have been promised. (Muslim: 4596)