Hadhrat Khabbab (Radhiyallaho anho)

The Afflictions of Hadhrat Khabbab bin Alarat (Radhiyallaho anho) :

      Hadhrat Khabbab (Radhiyallaho anho) is also one of those blesons who offered themselves for
sacrifice and suffering for the cause of Allah . He was the sixth or seventh person to embrace Islam
and therefore , he suffered long . He was made to put on steel armour and lie in the sun to sweat
and swelter . Very oftyen he was made to lie flat on burning sand , which caused the flesh on his
back to waste away . He was the slave ofa woman . When she came to know that he was visiting
the Prophet (Sallallaho alaihe wasallam) , she used to brand his head with a hot iron rod .  Hadhra
Umar  (Radhiyallaho anho) during his caliphoate once inquired of him about the details of his 
sufferings after embracing Islam . He showed him his back , seeing which Hadhra Umar
(Radhiyallaho anho) remarked , "I have never seen such a back before ." He said "My body was
dragged over heaps of smouldering charcoal , and the blood and fat coming out back put out the
fire ." It is said that , when Islam spread and the Muslims conquered all the surrounding territory
he used to weep and say :
       "Allah seems to be compensating us in this world for all our sufferings , and perhaps nothing
would be left for us as reward in the Hereafter ."