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The Holy Prophet Muhammad (sa) enjoined others to help the poor and advised his companions to apprise him of the needs of the destitute. Abu Sa’id Khudri (ra) relates that once, a poor man came to the mosque. The Holy Prophet Muhammad (sa) enjoined his companions to give some clothes in charity, they offered clothes. The Holy Prophet (sa) gave two sheets to this poor person. The Holy Prophet Muhammad (sa) again urged them to give charity. This poor person rose up and offered one sheet in charity out of the two he had received earlier. The Holy Prophet Muhammad (sa) called him aloud and told him to take his sheet back.
In the time of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (sa), a person suffered huge losses in his fruit business. The Holy Prophet (sa) enjoined the companions to give charity to him. The money collected was not enough to cover his outstanding debt. The Holy Prophet Muhammad (sa) told the creditor to waive the rest and forego the remainder.
A maid of Hazrat Mu’awiyah (ra) bin Hakam used to graze his sheep. One day, a wolf attacked the herd and took away a sheep. Mu’awiyah (ra), in his anger, slapped the maidservant and then informed the Holy Prophet Muhammad (sa) of this incident and said, ‘O Messenger of Allah, should I free this slave?’ The Holy Prophet (sa) told him to bring the maid to him. When she came, the Holy Prophet Muhammad (sa) asked her, ‘Where is Allah?’ She replied, ‘In the heaven.’ The Holy Prophet Muhammad (sa) asked her, ‘Who am I?’ She replied, ‘Messenger of Allah.’ The Holy Prophet (sa) told Mu’awiyah (ra) that the maid was a believer, and he should free her.
Hazrat Abdullah bin Umar (ra) relates an interesting incident of the Holy Prophet Muhammad’s (sa) service to mankind. Once, the Holy Prophet (sa) received ten dirhams from somewhere. A trader passed by and the Holy Prophet Muhammad (sa) bought a shirt from him for four dirhams. When he came out of his house wearing this shirt, an Ansari requested him to give this shirt to him, saying that may God reward him with the garments of paradise. The Holy Prophet Muhammad (sa) gave the shirt and went and bought another shirt for four dirhams from the same trader. Now, he only had two dirhams left. He met a maidservant who was crying. On enquiring, she told him that she had been sent with two dirhams to buy flour and she had lost the money. The Holy Prophet Muhammad (sa) gave the remaining two dirhams to her. She was still crying and told the Holy Prophet (sa) that she was afraid to go back to her master after that delay and her master might beat her up. The Holy Prophet Muhammad (sa) accompanied her to her master’s house and explained the reason for her delay. Her master said that he would free the maid as the Holy Prophet Muhammad (sa) had blessed his home by coming there. The Holy Prophet Muhammad (sa) gave him the glad tidings of a righteous end and said, ‘God has blessed these ten dirhams so much that an Ansari received a shirt, the Prophet of God also received a shirt, and a slave has been freed. I am thankful to God, who granted us all these things by His divine power.’
Muhammad (sa) – The Perfect Man (Qadian, India: Nazarat Isha’at, 2015), 261-263.
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