English Translation

Hadrat Abu Ayyub Sulayman, the mawla of Hadrat 'Uthman ibn 'Affan, said, "Hadrat Abu Hurayra came to us on a Thursday evening, the night before Jumu'a. He said, 'Every individual who severs ties of kinship is constricted when he leaves us. No one left until he had said that three times. Then a young man went to one of his paternal aunts with whom he had severed ties two years previously. He went to her and she asked him, 'Nephew! What has brought you?' He replied, 'I heard Hadrat Abu Hurayra say such-and-such.' She said, 'Go back to him and ask him why he said that.' Hadrat Abu Hurayra said, 'I heard the Noble Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) say, "The actions of the children of Adam (upon him be peace) are presented before Allah Almighty on Thursday evening, the night before Jumu'a. He does not accept the actions of someone who has severed ties of kinship."'"