Hayatus Sahabah - The Lives of the Sahabah - Part 3

THE LIVES OF THE SAHABAH @%G$&%> (Vol-3) 641
Dinaar. This made me very angry and I protested, 'You have left nothing for us?'
He then put his head down and had his afternoon nap. When Adhaan was called
out for the Zuhr salaah, I woke him up. He performed wudhu and then left for the
Masjid. Because he was fasting., I felt sorry for him and took a loan to prepare
supper for him and to light a lamp. When I then went to make his bed, I was
surprised to find some gold coins there. I counted three hundred of them and
said, 'He did what he did only because he could rely on what he had left behind.'
He returned after the Isha salaah and when he saw the supper and the light, he
smiled, saying, 'This is the bounty of Allaah.' I remained standing by him as he
finished his supper, after which I said, 'May Allaah have mercy on you. You had
left all that money in a place where it could have easily gotten lost without even
telling me so that I could use it. ' 'What money?' he enquired, 'I had left nothing
behind.' When I then lifted the bedding and he saw it, he was overjoyed. I then
got up, cut off my cross and accepted Islaam."
Hadhrat Ibn Jaabir says, "I saw her (Hadhrat Abu Umaamah !3UW1s slave
woman) in the Masjid of Damascus where she was busy teaching the women
Qur'aan, the Sunnah, the Faraa'idh and educating them about Deen."
Blessings in Wealth
Blessings in the Money Rasulullaah @& gave
Hadhrat Salmaan %%wj to Purchase his Freedom
In a lengthy narration discussing how he accepted Islaam, Hadhrat Salmaan
WW-5 says, "When I was still left owing something, a gold nugget resembling a
fowl's eggs came to Rasulullaah $f6@ from some mine. 'What has happened to
the Persian Mukaatab slave?' When I was called before Rasulullaah m, he said,
"Take this, 0 Salmaan, and pay the balance of your debt off.' I said, 'How will this
(meagre amount) pay off the amount due from me?' 'Take it,' Rasulullaah
insisted, 'because it will surely pay off what you owe.' I then took it and 1 swear
by the Being Who controls my life that when it was weighed, it amounted to forty
Awqiya. I was therefore able to pay them off in full and become a free man." (2)
In another narration, Hadhrat Salmaan 3C% says, "When I said 'How will this
(meagre amount) pay off the amount due from me?' Rasulullaah @& turned the
gold around on his tongue and then said, 'Take it pay them off all the forty
Awqiya due to them."'(3)
Blessings in the Wealth of Hadhrat Urwa Baariqi