Hayatus Sahabah - The Lives of the Sahabah - Part 3

THE LIVES OF THE SAHABAH @,%@&> (Vol-3) 633
grabbed the bag by its head. (Seeing me) Rasulullaah @& remarked, "Had you
left it, the entire valley would have been flowing with butter."
Blessings in the Goat of Hadhrat Khabbaab bin
Arat ~.Gm2 after Rasulullaah @@ had Milked her
Hadhrat Khabbaab bin Arat 3.Em's daughter reports, "When my father left on an
expedition, he left us nothing apart from a goat. His instruction was that
whenever we needed to have it milked, we should take it to the men of Suffa.
When we then took it to them, we found Rasulullaah @@ sitting there.
Rasulullaah @@ took the goat, fastened her and then started to milk her. 'Bring
me the largest utensil you have,' Rasulullaah @8$ asked. 1 went home and the
largest 1 could find was the utensil in which we kneaded dough. When I brought
it to Rasulullaah @@, he milked the goat until he had filled the utensil. He then
said to us, 'Take this milk, drink from it and give it to your neighbours to drink
as well. Bring her to me whenever you wish to milk her."
We then continued taking the goat to Rasulullaah @@ and until my father
returned, we had plenty of milk. When my father returned and tied her up to milk
her, she gave only that amount of milk as she had been giving previously. 'You
have ruined our goat!' my mother remarked. 'What do you mean?' my father
asked. My mother explained, 'We used to fill this utensil with milk.' 'Who was
doing the milking?' my father enquired. When my mother informed him that
Rasulullaah $& did the milking, my father remarked, 'Are you equating me with
Rasulullaah @&? By Allaah! His hands are much more blessed than mine."'(2)
In the chapter discussing the difficulties that the Sahabah @GW bore, the
narration of Hadhrat Abu Hurayrah B,Gwj has passed concerning the great
blessings in milk. The narration of Hadhrat Ali 3,G& in the chapter of Da'wah
also discusses the same.
Blessings in Meat
Blessings in the Meat of Hadhrat Mas'ood bin
Khaalid a,@&&j
Hadhrat Mas'ood bin Khaalid 33% says, "I once sent a goat to Rasulullaah
@& and then had to leave to do something. Rasulullaah @@ sent a portion of
the meat back to my family and when 1 returned to (my wife) Ummu Khunaas
WGWj, I found some meat with them. '0 Ummu Khunaas!' I asked, 'What meat is
this?' She replied by saying, 'Your friend Rasulullaah @& has sent back a piece
of the meat from the goat you sent to him.' 'Then why do you not feed it to your
family?' 1 asked. 'I have already fed them,' she replied, 'This is what was left over.'
This surprised me because sometimes even one or two goats are not sufficient
for them." (3)
(I) Abu Nu'aym in his Dalaa'il (Pg. 155).
(2) Ibn Sa'd (Vo1.8 Pg.291).
(3) Tabraani. Haythami (vo1.8 Pg.310) has commented on the chain of narrators.