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intention then said, "I want to entrust you with ten thousand dirhams. Please
buy a house for me with this money." The shaykh agreed and the man left
feeling happy that the shaykh accepted to do this for him.
Sometime after the man from Khurasan had left to go on pilgrimage Basra
was stricken by a severe famine. Men, women and children were very hungry
and it distressed the shaykh to see such terrible suffering. Then the shaykh
was blessed with a wonderful idea, he had been entrusted with a very large
sum of money that could be put to good use feeding all the starving families,
so he spent all the money in the Name of Allah to buy food.
After the last dirham had been spent, the shaykh supplicated to Allah saying,
"O Allah, he asked me to buy a house for him, but did not say whether it was
to be in this world or the next, so I have bought from You a house in Paradise
for him."
Several months passed by and the man returned from his pilgrimage and a
few days later went to visit the shaykh. When he met the shaykh he told him
of his blessed pilgrimage and how happy he had been to pray at the Ka'ba
buy a house for me with this money." The shaykh agreed and the man left
feeling happy that the shaykh accepted to do this for him.
Sometime after the man from Khurasan had left to go on pilgrimage Basra
was stricken by a severe famine. Men, women and children were very hungry
and it distressed the shaykh to see such terrible suffering. Then the shaykh
was blessed with a wonderful idea, he had been entrusted with a very large
sum of money that could be put to good use feeding all the starving families,
so he spent all the money in the Name of Allah to buy food.
After the last dirham had been spent, the shaykh supplicated to Allah saying,
"O Allah, he asked me to buy a house for him, but did not say whether it was
to be in this world or the next, so I have bought from You a house in Paradise
for him."
Several months passed by and the man returned from his pilgrimage and a
few days later went to visit the shaykh. When he met the shaykh he told him
of his blessed pilgrimage and how happy he had been to pray at the Ka'ba