The Book of Virtues
كتاب الفضائل
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The Cistern Of Our Prophet (ﷺ) And Its Attributes
Hadith
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ENGLISH
Jabir reported that a person came to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and asked for food. And he gave him half a wasq of barley, and the person and his wife and their guests kept on making use of it (as a food) until he weighed it (in order to find out the actual quantity, and it was no more). He came to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) (and informed him about it). He said:
Had you not weighed it, you would be eating out of it and it would have remained intact for you.
ARABIC
لَوْ لَمْ تَكِلْهُ لأَكَلْتُمْ مِنْهُ وَلَقَامَ لَكُمْ