Hadith 12

sting what had raised in the ground, and the growth and harvest was great. Then it did not cease to be like this until I acquired with it the estate, and the castles, and the villages, and the houses, and the buildings, and the dwellings, and the herds of camels, and the cows, and the sheep, and the caravan of the camels, and the animals, and the furniture, and the chattels, and the slaves, and the maids, and the furnishings, and the tools, and the abundant bounties, and a lot of Dirhams and Dinars. When it was after two years, that employee passed by me, and his state had become bad, and he had weakened, and the poverty had prolonged upon him, and his sight was weak. He said to me, ‘O servant of Allah-azwj! Do you recognise me? I am your employee who angrily left the wage of that one day, and left it due to my needlessness from it. And today, I am poor, and have come to be as you can see, and I am (now) pleased with it, therefore give it to me’. I said to him, ‘Besides (your wage), are these estates, and villages, and the castles, and the houses, and the buildings, and the dwellings, and the herds of the camels, and the cows, and the sheep, and the caravan of the camels, and the animals, and the furniture, and the chattels, and the slaves, and the maids, and the furnishings, and the tools, and the abundant bounties, and lots of Dirhams and Dinars, therefore take these for yourself entirely. Congratulations, these are for you! ’
He cried and said to me, ‘O servant of Allah-azwj! You procrastinated with my right what you procrastinated, then you are now mocking me! ’ I said, ‘I am not mocking with you, and I am not except very serious. This, all of it is the result of that wage (money), a product from it. The root (original sum) was yours, and these are the branches, all of them being a consequence of the original (sum). Therefore these are for you’. And I submitted the whole of it to him. O Allah-azwj! Surely You–azwj Know that I, rather did this – hoping for Your–azwj Rewards and fearing Your–azwj Punishment, then Relieve from us, by the Him-azwj, the superior, the honourable, chief of the former ones and the latter ones whom You–azwj Ennobled, by his–saww Progeny-asws being the most superior of the progenies of the Prophets–as, and his–saww companions being the most honourable companions of the Mursils–as, and his–saww community being the best of the communities in their entirety’. He–asws said: ‘A third of the rock moved and the light entered upon them’. And the second one said, ‘O Allah-azwj! Surely You–azwj Know that there used to be a cow for me I used to milk, then I would go to my mother with its milk, then I would go with its remainder to my wife and my children. One night a hindrance delayed me, and I found my mother to have fallen asleep. I paused by her head to nudge her awake. (But) I did not nudge her awake due to her old age, and my wife and childre