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SA'ID, THE SON OF ZAID ACCEPTED SUPPLICATION

1542

“Arwah the daughter of Aus complained to Marwan, the son of Hakam, Governor of Medina. She alleged that Sa'id, the son of Zaid, son of Amr, the son of Nufail had taken possession of part of her land. Sa'id replied, ‘How could I take her land after I had heard the warning of the Messenger of Allah, praise and peace be upon him?’ Marwan asked him, ‘What did you hear the Messenger of Allah, praise and peace be upon him, say?’ He answered, ‘I heard the Messenger of Allah, praise and peace be upon him, say, Whosoever takes even a span of a hand of land unjustly will wear a necklace the size of seven earths around his neck. Marwan said, ‘I have no need to ask you for any further proof after this.’ Sa'id supplicated saying, ‘O Allah, if she is lying take away her sight and cause her to die on her land.’”

Urwah, the narrator said that before the woman died she became blind and fell into a pit while walking on the disputed piece of land, and that the pit became her grave.

He (Muhammad the son of Zaid) saw her when she was blind groping her way along the walls and would say, ‘I have been afflicted by the supplication of Sa'id.’ Then one day when she was walking on the disputed piece of land she fell into a well which became her grave.

Bukhari and Muslim with a chain up to Urwah, the son of Zubair who related this. Last paragraph Muslim with a chain up to Muhammad the son of Zaid, the son of Abdullah, the son of 'Omar also narrated this.