In his Saheeh, Imam Bukhari related that a man from the children of Israel asked another to lend him one thousand diners.
The second man asked, "Do you have a witness (for this transaction)?"
The first man replied, "I have no witness except Allah."
The other man then asked, "Do you have a guarantor?"
The man said, "I have no guarantor except Allah."
The second man said, "Allah is Ever All-Sufficient as a Disposer of affairs."
He then gave him the thousand diners; they parted and between them there was an agreement upon a place and time for the paying back of the loan. As it happened, they lived on opposite sides of a river. When the time drew near for the transaction, the borrower went to the shore to find a boat so that he could repay his debt. To his disappointment, he found no boat. He continued to wait until long after nightfall without succeeding in finding someone to take him across to the other side.
He said, "O' Allah, he asked me for a witness and I found no one but you; he asked me for a guarantor, and I found no one but you. O' Allah, make this letter reach him." He took a piece of wood, hollowed it out, and inserted the thousand diners with the letter. Then he hurled the piece of wood into the river.
By the permission of Allah, it floated forward according to a guided course. The lender went to the shore in keeping with the appointment. He waited for a little while, and when the other man did not come, he said to himself, "Why don't I at least take some firewood for my family?" He passed by the piece of wood and took it home. Finding that it was hallow, he broke it open and found the money with the letter.
Source: Don't be sad by Aaidh al Qarni
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