Gardens of the Righteous — Page 120
120. GARDENS OF THE RIGHTEOUS 569. Abu Sa'id Khudri relates: While we were on a journey with the. Holy Prophet a man came riding his mount and began turning his eyes right and left, whereupon the Holy Prophet said: Whoever can spare a mount should offer it to him who has none, and whoever has spare food should offer it to him who has none: and he went on specifying every type of provision till we thought none of us had any right to what might be spare (Muslim). 570. Sahl ibn Sa'ad relates that a woman brought a woven piece of stuff to the Holy Prophet and said to him: I have woven this with my own hands so that you might wear it. He accepted it feeling the need for it and later came out wearing it as his loin cloth. Someone present said: How nice it is. Give it to me to wear. The Holy Prophet said: Very well. Then he sat among us awhile, then went and sent it out folded to the man. Some of those present said to him:. You did not do well. The Holy Prophet wore it as he had need of it, and you asked him for it, knowing that he never declines a request. He said: Indeed, I did not ask him for it that I might wear it. I asked him for it so that it might serve as my shroud. In fact it served as his shroud. 571. Abu Musa relates that the Holy Prophet said: When the Ash'aris are faced with scarcity in battle or while they are at home in Medina they collect all they have by way of provisions in a sheet and then divide it equally among themselves. Thus they are of me and I am of them (Bokhari and. Muslim). 63. . On Aspiring after that which is Blessed. Allah, the Exalted, has said: 193. After this should the aspirants aspire (83. 27). 572. Sahl ibn Sa'ad relates that drink was brought to the Holy Prophet and he drank of it. On his right was a boy and on his left were older people. . He said to the boy: Would you permit that I should give the rest of this drink to those on my left? The boy said: Messenger of Allah, I would certainly not give preference to anyone else over myself in respect of that which might come to me from you. So he handed over the rest of the drink to him. (Bokhari and. Muslim). 573. Abu Hurairah relates that the Holy Prophet said: While Job, the. Prophet, was bathing naked a gold locust dropped on him. He tried to secure it in a piece of cloth, when he heard his Lord calling him: Job, have I not made you independent of that which you see? Job made answer: Indeed, by Thy. Honour, but I am not indifferent towards Thy blessings (Bokhari).