1270 — Abū Bakr Jaʿfar ibn Muhammad al-Firyābī narrated to us: Qutayba ibn Saʿīd narrated to us: Sufyān ibn ʿUyayna narrated to us that he heard Muhammad ibn al-Munkadir narrate from Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allah, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said to me, “Had the wealth from Bahrain arrived, I would have given you this much, and this much, and this much,” gesturing three times. But the wealth from Bahrain did not arrive before the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, passed away.

When it arrived during Abū Bakr’s caliphate, he instructed a herald to proclaim: “Whoever is owed a debt or a promise by the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, should come to me.” Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allah said: So I went to Abū Bakr and informed him that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, had said, “If the wealth from Bahrain arrives, I will give you this much, and this much, and this much,” gesturing three times.

Jābir said: I later went to Abū Bakr and asked him, but he gave me nothing. Then I went to him again, but he gave me nothing. Then I went to him once more, but he gave me nothing. So I said to him, “I have come to you, but you have given me nothing. Either give me what was promised, or admit that you are withholding it from me out of miserliness.” He replied, “Did you say ⦗1810⦘, ‘withholding it from me out of miserliness’? What affliction could be worse than miserliness?” He repeated this three times, then said, “Whenever I withheld it from you, I fully intended to give it to you.”