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RIYADH AS-SALIHIN 309 gold. So he said to the seller of the land: Take your gold, I purchased the land from you and did not purchase the gold. The seller said to him: I sold you the land with all that it contained. So they took their dispute to a third one and he asked them: Have you any children? One of them said: I have a boy; and the other said: I have a girl. So the man decided: Marry the boy to the girl and spend the money on them (Bokhari and Muslim). 1833. Abu Hurairah relates that he heard the Holy Prophet say: Two women had each her child with her when a wolf came and made away with the child of one of them. She said to her companion: The wolf has taken away your child; and the other retorted: Indeed, the wolf took away your child. They took their dispute to David and he decided in favour of the older woman. . When they left him they passed by Solomon, son of David, and told him what had happened. He said: Bring me a knife, I shall cut the child in two and divide it between you; whereupon the younger one cried out: Allah have mercy on you do not do this, the child belongs to the other one. So Solomon decided in favour of the younger one (Bokhari and Muslim). 1834. Mirdas Aslam relates that the Holy Prophet said: The righteous will depart one by one and the useless ones will remain like the husk of barley or dates for whom Allah will have no care (Bokhari). 1835. Rifa'a ibn Rafi' Zarqi relates that Gabriel came to the Holy. Prophet and asked: How do you estimate among you those who fought at. Badr? He answered: As the best of Muslims (or words to that effect). Gabriel said: The same applies to the angels who were present at Badr (Bokhari). 1836. Ibn Umar relates that the Holy Prophet said: When Allah afflicts a people with His chastisement it envelops all of them but then they are raised up according to their conduct in life (Bokhari and Muslim). 1837. Jabir relates: There was a trunk of a date-palm tree on which the. Holy Prophet would lean when delivering his sermon. When a pulpit was placed in the mosque we heard the trunk cry out like the cry of a pregnant she-camel. The Holy Prophet descended from the pulpit and put his hand on the trunk and it became quiet. Another version is: When the Friday arrived the Holy Prophet sat on the pulpit and the trunk of the date-palm tree on which he used to lean cried out as if it would splinter asunder. A third version is: It cried like the crying of a child and the Holy Prophet came down and took hold of it and drew it to himself and it began to sob like a child that is being comforted till it stopped, satisfied. The Holy Prophet said: It cried remembering what it used to hear of the Reminder (Bokhari). 1838. Jurthum ibn Nashir relates that the Holy Prophet said: Allah, the. Exalted, has laid down certain obligations which do not neglect, and has set certain limits which do not transgress, and has forbidden certain things which do not commit, and has kept silent about other things out of mercy for you and not out of forgetfulness. So do not seek to discover them (Dar Qutni). 1839. Abdullah ibn Abi Aufa relates: We accompanied the Holy