www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a9owdiEwFw
in this brief video shaykh zaheer mahmood (ha) talks about bilal رضي الله عنه. he mentions the incident that when bilal رضي الله عنه returned to madinah after many years of absence he gave the azaan and the sahaba came out ripping their clothes and tearing their hair out in grieve as it bought back memories of the time of rasoolullah
. is this to be taken literally or just figure of speach to show how emotional the sahaba got? we all know its haram to do such actions and i really cant imagine the best of this ummah behaving in such a way even if it was for rasoolullah . they didnt do it when rasoolullah initially passed away so why when being reminded about him when bilal gave azaan. 
