people I am looking for two specific hadith which I remember reading in my teens. One is about some people visiting the Prophet (sm.) and cursing him, to which when his sahaba tried replying he stopped them and returned the greeting with Walakum
The second one was about soldiers who were ordered to follow their General …after some problem he built a big fire and ordered them to jump into it as they were commanded by the Prophet (sm) to follow him in whatever he ordered..to which the soldiers replied that they became Muslim to escape from the fire.
may be you read a smiliar hadith with different wordings, wallah o alam
Volume 5, Book 59, Number 629:
Narrated 'Ali:
The Prophet sent a Sariya under the command of a man from the Ansar and ordered the soldiers to obey him. He (i.e. the commander) became angry and said "Didn't the Prophet order you to obey me!" They replied, "Yes." He said, "Collect fire-wood for me." So they collected it. He said, "Make a fire." When they made it, he said, "Enter it (i.e. the fire)." So they intended to do that and started holding each other and saying, "We run towards (i.e. take refuge with) the Prophet from the fire." They kept on saying that till the fire was extinguished and the anger of the commander abated. When that news reached the Prophet he said, "If they had entered it (i.e. the fire), they would not have come out of it till the Day of Resurrection. Obedience (to somebody) is required when he enjoins what is good."
people I am looking for two specific hadith which I remember reading in my teens. One is about some people visiting the Prophet (sm.) and cursing him, to which when his sahaba tried replying he stopped them and returned the greeting with Walakum