so Allah kept every single heap untouched. I could look at the very heap on which the Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—had sat and it seemed not to have diminished by even one date.

In another version of the story:

“His father had owed a Jewish man thirty wasqs of dates. Jabir asked the creditor for a delay, but he refused. Jabir then spoke to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, requesting his intercession. The Prophet came, spoke to the Jew, and asked him to accept the harvest of Jabir’s palms in settlement of the debt, but the man still refused. The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, entered the orchard, walked among the trees, and then said to Jabir, ‘Harvest the fruit for him and pay him in full.’ After the Prophet had left, Jabir harvested thirty wasqs for the creditor—and there remained a surplus of seventeen wasqs. Jabir went to inform the Prophet of what had happened, but found him performing the ʿAṣr prayer. When he had finished, Jabir told him about the surplus. The Prophet said, ‘Inform Ibn al-Khattab of this.’ So Jabir went to ʿUmar and told him, and ʿUmar said, ‘I knew, from the moment the Messenger of Allah walked through those palms, that he would place blessing in them.’ ”

Imam Ahmad, al-Tirmidhi, and others have also transmitted the report of Abu Hurayrah’s satchel