Al-Adab Al-Mufrad 187

Translation

✧ …that they might perish. The first person we met was Abu al-Yasar, the Companion of the Prophet ﷺ, and with him was a slave of his. Abu al-Yasar was wearing a burdah and a maʿāfirī garment, and his slave was wearing a burdah and a maʿāfirī garment. I said to him, "Uncle, if you took your slave's burdah and gave him your maʿāfirī, or took his maʿāfirī and gave him your burdah, you would have a full suit and he would have a full suit." He wiped my head and said, "O Allah, bless him in it. Nephew, these two eyes of mine saw, and these two ears of mine heard, and my heart retained" – and he pointed to the cord of his heart – "the Prophet ﷺ saying: 'Feed them from what you eat and clothe them from what you wear.' If I gave him the goods of this world, that would be easier for me than that he should take from my good deeds on the Day of Rising."

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