Hayatus Sahabah

Hadhrat Khabaab bin Al Arat رضي الله عنه was amongst those great souls who endured the worst of trials and torture in the path of Allaah Ta'aala. He was the sixth or seventh person to enter the fold of Islam and was therefore subjected to suffering for a longer period of time. He was made to wear steel armour and thrown into the sun, causing him to swelter in the extreme desert heat. He was often made to lie on the scorching sand because of which the flesh on his back would fall from his body. He was a slave of a woman who, when she learnt that he had been meeting with Rasoolullah صلى الله على وسلم, she branded his head with a hot iron. A while after he had become the Khalifa, Hadhrat Umar رضي الله عنه once asked Hadhrat Khabbaab رضي الله عنه about his sufferings.  “Just look at my back" Hadhrat  Khabbaab رضي الله عنه said . When he did, Hadhrat Umar رضي الله عنه exclaimed, “I have never seen such a back!” Hadhrat Khabbaab رضي الله عنه said, “I was made to lie on burning