This is How We Love our Prophet, SAW

“On reaching Madinah after a long journey of migration from Makkah, the Messenger, be peace and blessings upon him, entered the town after the Friday prayers in the climate filled with joy and happiness. He wouldn’t pass by any neighbourhood, but they would take hold of his camel’s halter and beg him to allow them host an honored guest. He would say, “Leave her, for it (the camel) is commanded (by Allah). She kept marching forward, with him mounted on her, until she arrived at the spot where the Madinan Grand Mosque now stands. There she squatted. But he didn’t alight.

After a few moments she rose up and moved forward a little. Then she turned and came back to the old spot and settled there for good. The place belonged to Banu Najjar, right in front of Abu Ayyub’s house. Abu Ayyub came forward, and took the saddle, the Prophet said, “A man is with his saddle.” Asad bin Zurarah took charge of his camel.

The Prophet, be peace and blessings upon him, occupied the lower floor of the two- story house. Abu Ayyub occupied the upper portion. That night Abu Ayyub said to his wife, “Can we walk over the head of the Prophet?” Next day he requested the Prophet, be peace and blessings upon him, that he better occupy the upper portion. The Prophet, be peace and blessings upon him, told him, “Ground floor suits him.”

Abu Ayyub said, “I won’t be up while you are down here.” So (some time later) the Prophet, be peace and blessings upon him, shifted to the upper floor and Abu Ayyub to the lower.

Abu Ayyub took it upon himself to prepare food for the Prophet, be peace and blessings upon him. When the tray was taken away from the Prophet, be peace and blessings upon him and brought to Abu Ayyub, he would ask for the spot from where the Prophet, be peace and blessings upon him, had eaten and he himself ate from there.

One day he prepared something in which garlic had been used. When his turn came he asked for the spot from where the Prophet, be peace and blessings upon him, had eaten. But he was told that the Prophet, be peace and blessings upon him hadn’t eaten at all. He went up and asked him, “Is it unlawful?” The Prophet, be peace and blessings upon him, replied, “No. But I don’t like it.” He (Abu Ayyub) said, “And I dislike what you dislike.” Actually it was because angels visited the Prophet, be peace and blessings upon him, and they don’t like garlic smell.

Once when the Prophet, be peace and blessings upon him, was staying at the lower portion, a water pitcher broke, at a time when Abu Ayyub was in the upper floor.  He and his wife used the only cotton-blanket they had to prevent the water leaking down on Prophet, be peace and blessings upon him. It was one of the reasons why Abu Ayyub requested the Prophet, be peace and blessings upon him, to exchange the floor. It is reported that the Prophet’s, be peace and blessings upon him, total period of stay in Abu Ayyub’s house was a month.”

(A Biography of The Prophet of Islam by Dr. Mahdi Rizqullah Ahmed translated into English by Syed Iqbal Zaheer)