Through the blessing of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ—his supplication, his walking about Jābir’s orchard, and his sitting upon the heap of dates—Allah cleared his father’s debt. Jābir’s father had been slain on the Day of Uḥud, and Jābir had not expected the debt to be repaid that year or in any year thereafter; yet a surplus of dates remained, exceeding anything he had hoped or imagined. To Allah belong all praise and favour.
The Story of Salmān: how the Prophet ﷺ multiplied a single piece of gold so he could pay the debt of his manumission
Imām Aḥmad said: “Yaʿqūb narrated to us; my father narrated to us; from Ibn Isḥāq; he told me from Yazīd ibn Abī Ḥabīb—a man of ʿAbd al-Qays—on the authority of Salmān, who said:
When I exclaimed, ‘And what can this possibly cover of what I still owe, O Messenger of Allah?’ the Messenger of Allah ﷺ took the piece of gold, rolled it on his tongue, and then said, ‘Take it and pay them with it.’ I took it and from it repaid them their full due—forty uqiyyahs.”
The Account of Abū Hurayrah’s Pouch of Dates
Imām Aḥmad (3) related: “Yūnus narrated to us; Ḥammād—meaning Ibn Zayd—narrated to us, from al-Muhājir, from Abū l-ʿĀliyah, from Abū Hurayrah, who said:
I once brought the Messenger of Allah ﷺ a few dates. He said, ‘Pray to Allah for blessing in them for me.’ He lined them up before him, supplicated, and then said, ‘Put them in a pouch; reach your hand in, but do not scatter them.’ From that pouch I later carried such-and-such loads (wasqs) in the cause of Allah; we continued to eat and to feed others, and the pouch never left my waist. When ʿUthmān (may Allah be pleased with him) was killed, the pouch came loose from my waist and fell.”
Al-Tirmidhī also transmitted the report through ʿImrān ibn Mūsā al-Qazzāz al-Baṣrī, from Ḥammād ibn Zayd, from al-Muhājir, from Abū Makhlad, from Rufayʿ Abū l-ʿĀliyah, from him, and he said: “It is ḥasan gharīb by this chain.”
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The ḥāfiẓ Abū Bakr al-Bayhaqī said: “Abū al-Fatḥ Hilāl ibn Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar al-Ḥaffār informed us; Ḥusayn ibn …”