جَاءَ رَجُلٌ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) فَقَالَ إِنِّي شَيْخٌ كَثِيرُ الْعِيَالِ ضَعِيفُ الرُّكْنِ قَلِيلُ الشَّيْءِ فَهَلْ مِنْ مَعُونَةٍ عَلَى زَمَانِي فَنَظَرَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) إِلَى أَصْحَابِهِ وَ نَظَرَ إِلَيْهِ أَصْحَابُهُ وَ قَالَ قَدْ أَسْمَعَنَا الْقَوْلَ وَ أَسْمَعَكُمْ فَقَامَ إِلَيْهِ رَجُلٌ فَقَالَ كُنْتُ مِثْلَكَ بِالْأَمْسِ فَذَهَبَ بِهِ إِلَى مَنْزِلِهِ فَأَعْطَاهُ مِرْوَداً مِنْ تِبْرٍ وَ كَانُوا يَتَبَايَعُونَ بِالتِّبْرِ وَ هُوَ الذَّهَبُ وَ الْفِضَّةُ فَقَالَ الشَّيْخُ هَذَا كُلُّهُ قَالَ نَعَمْ فَقَالَ الشَّيْخُ أَقْبَلُ تِبْرَكَ فَإِنِّي لَسْتُ بِجِنِّيٍّ وَ لَا إِنْسِيٍّ وَ لَكِنِّي رَسُولٌ مِنَ اللَّهِ لِأَبْلُوَكَ فَوَجَدْتُكَ شَاكِراً فَجَزَاكَ اللَّهُ خَيْراً .
Translation
A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Khalid, from Usman Bin Isa, from a man, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> having said: ‘A man came over to the Prophet<sup>saww</sup>, so he said: ‘I am an old man with a lot of dependants, weak of health, with few things. So, is there an assistance upon my time?’ So Rasool-Allah<sup>saww</sup> looked at his<sup>saww</sup> companions, and his<sup>saww</sup> companions looked at him<sup>saww</sup> and he<sup>saww</sup> said, ‘He made us<sup>saww</sup> to hear the speech, and made you all to hear it’. So a man stood up and he said, ‘I was like you yesterday’. So he went away with him to his house and gave him an ingot, and they used to be trading with the ingot, and it was the gold and the silver. So the old man said, ‘This is all of it (for me)?’ He said, ‘Yes’. So the old man said, ‘I accept your ingot, and I am neither a jinn nor a human, but I am a Messenger from Allah<sup>azwj</sup> to test you, so you have been found to be grateful. May Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Recompense you goodly’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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