While I was sitting with him, there came a knock at the door.
He said, "O maid, come out and see who this is."
So Muhammad ibn Sulayman said, "Tell him to enter alone."
He greeted him, then sat down before him.
He said, "What is the matter with me? When I looked at you, I was filled with terror."
Hammad said, "I heard Thabit, meaning al-Bannani."
He says, "I heard Anas ibn Malik, may Allah be pleased with him."
He says, "I heard the Messenger of Allah say."
When a scholar seeks, by his knowledge, the Face of Allah Most High, everything fears him.
And if he intended to increase his treasures by it, he feared everything.
He said, "What do you say, may God have mercy on you, about a man who has two sons?"
And he favored one of them, so he intended to give him two-thirds of his wealth during his lifetime.
He said, "No. May God have mercy on you, for I heard Thabit al-Bunnani."
Anas ibn Malik says, "I heard the Messenger of God say."
Indeed, when God intends to punish a servant because of his wealth and his understanding, He causes him, at his death, to make an unjust will.
He said, then Hajja said, "Bring what would not be a calamity for the religion of God."
He said, "Forty thousand dirhams to help you with your present condition."
He said, "I will return it to the person whom I wronged with it."
He said, "By God, I gave you nothing except what I inherited."
He said, "I have no need for it."
He said, "Tell her from me: may God remove your burdens from you."
He said, "Then change this."
He said, "Bring what would not be a calamity in the religion of God."
He said, "Take it and divide it."
He said, "So perhaps if she were just in dividing it, some of those who were not provided from it might say that he did not act fairly in dividing it, and so he sins. Keep it away from me. May God relieve you of your burdens."
that he did not act fairly in dividing it, and so he commits a sin
Keep it away from me; may God relieve you of your burdens.
