Anas reported that after the death of Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) Abu Bakr said to 'Umar: Let us visit Umm Aiman as Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) used to visit her. As we came to her, she wept. They (Abu Bakr and Umar) said to her: What makes you weep? What is in store (in the next world) for Allaah's-Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) is better than (this worldly life). She said: I weep not because I am ignorant of the fact that what is in store for Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) (in the next world) is better than (this world), but I weep because the revelation which came from the Heaven has ceased to come. This moved both of them to tears and they began to weep along with her.
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