PERTAINING TO PIETY AND SOFTENING OF HEARTs
Hearts
Book 42, Number 7059:
Jabir b. Abdullah reported that Allah's
Apostle (may p(-ace be upon him) happened to walk through the bazar coming from
the side of 'Aliya and the people were on both his sides.
There he found a dead
lamb with very short ears.
He took hold of his ear and said: Who amongst you
would like to have this for a dirham?
They said: We do not like to have it even
for less than that as it is of no use to us. He said: Do you wish to have it
(free of any cost)?
They said: By Allah, even if it were alive (we would not
have liked to possess that), for there is detect in it as its ear is very
short; now it is dead also.Thereupon Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
said: By Allah, this world is more insignificant in the eye of Allah as it
(this dead lamb) is in your eye.
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