A man went to the Prophet (sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallaam)
and said: “O Messenger of Allah! Indeed I am extremely hungry.” The
Prophet (sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallaam) sent a message to one of his wives
asking, “Do you have any food with you?” She said, “No, by the One
Who has sent you with the truth, all I have with me is the water!
He (sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallaam) then sent messages to
all of his wives asking the same question, and the answer of each one of
them was, “No”, by the One Who has sent you with truth, all we have is
water.”
Allah’s Messenger (sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallaam) said to
his Companions; “Who will be a host tonight, May Allah have mercy on him.” A
man from the Helpers (Ansar) called Abu Talhah stood and said, “I, O
Messenger of Allah.”
He went to his house and asked his wife, “Do you have any
food with you?” She said, “All I have with me is a little bit of food for our
children.” He said, “Give excuses to them, and then try to make them
go to sleep! And when our guest comes, make him think we are also eating
as he puts his hand forward to eat. Then go to the lamp and pretend that you
are fixing it, but instead put it out. And give him the impression that we are
eating, so that our guest eats and fill himself.”
She did what her husband asked her to do; she made her
children sleep hungry, she placed the food before the guest, she stood to turn
the lamp-off but she was giving the impression of simply adjusting the lamp.
Then she sat with her husband and with the guest for meal, they sat idle as the
guest ate.
On the following day, he went to Allah’s Messenger (sallallaahu
`alayhi wa sallaam) who said to him, “Tonight Allah laughed, or wondered
at your action.” And then the following verse was been revealed.
‘And give them preference over themselves, even though they
were in need of that…”[Qur’an 59:9]
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