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Yahya related to me from Malik from Zayd ibn Aslam from Ata ibn
Yasar that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him
peace, sent a gift to Umar ibn al-Khattab, and Umar returned it. The
Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said,
"Why did you return it?" He said, "Messenger of Allah, didn't you tell
us that it is better for us not to take anything from anyone?" The
Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said,
"That is by asking. Provision which Allah gives you is different from
asking." Umar ibn al-Khattab said, "By the One in whose hand my self
is, I will not ask anything from anyone, and anything that comes to me
without my asking for it, I will accept."
Yahya related to me from Malik from Zayd ibn Aslam from Ata ibn
Yasar that a man of the Banu Asad said, "My family and I dismounted to
rest at Baqi. My family said to me, 'Go to the Messenger of Allah, may
Allah bless him and grant him peace, and ask him for something that we
can eat,' and they began to mention their need. I went to the
Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and found
that a man was asking for something, and the Messenger of Allah, may
Allah bless him and grant him peace, was saying, 'I do not have
anything to give you.' The man turned away from him in anger, saying,
'By my life! You give to whomever you wish.' The Messenger of Allah,
may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, 'He is angry with me
because I do not have anything to give him. Whoever asks of you while
he has an uqiya or its like, has asked with importunity.' "
The man continued, "I said to myself about a camel that we had, 'It is
better than an uqiya.' (Malik explained that an uqiya was forty
dirhams.) So I returned and did not ask him for anything, and the
Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, sent me
barley and raisins after that. He gave us from his share until Allah,
the Mighty, the Majestic gave us relief."
Yahya related to me from Malik that he heard that a beggar asked
A'isha, the wife of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him
peace, for something while she was fasting and there was only a loaf
of bread in her house. She said to her female mawla, "Give it to him."
The mawla protested, "You will not have anything to break your fast
with." A'isha repeated, "Give it to him," so she did so. When evening
came, the people of a house or a man who did not usually give to them,
gave them a sheep and some food to go with it. A'isha, umm al-muminin,
called her mawla and said, "Eat from this. This is better than your
loaf of bread."
Malik related to me that Ishaq ibn Abdullah ibn Abi Talha heard
Anas ibn Malik say, "Abu Talha had the greatest amount of property in
palm-trees among the Ansar in Madina. The dearest of his properties to
him was Bayruha which was in front of the mosque. The Messenger of
Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, used to go into it and
drink from the pleasant water which was in it."
Anas
continued, "When this ayat was sent down 'You will not obtain
rightness of action until you expend of what you love,' (Sura 2 ayat
l76), Abu Talha went to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him
and grant him peace, and said, 'Messenger of Allah! Allah, the
Blessed, the Exalted, has said, "You will not obtain until you expend
of what you love." The property which I love the best is Bayruha. It
is sadaqa for Allah. I hope for its good and for it to be stored up
with Allah. Place it wherever you wish, Messengerof Allah. ' "
"The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace,
said, 'Well done! That is property which profits! That is property
which profits. I have heard what you have said about it and I think
that you should give it to your relatives.' Abu Talha said, 'I will do
it, Messenger of Allah!' Abu Talha therefore divided it among his
relatives and the children of his paternal uncle."
