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pillow was filled up with refuges of grapes covered with skin.
Once Hazrat Omar went to the Prophet ad saw him sleeping on a chatai mixed with dust. When the Prophet rose up from sleep, he saw prints of chatai on his both sides and began to weep. The Messenger of God asked him : O son of Khattab, why are you weeping ? Hazrat Omar said : O Messenger of God, the emperors of Byzantium and Persia are engaged in endless happiness though they are enemies of God, but you are the friend of God, His messenger and chosen servant, You are lying on this cahtai mixed with dust? The Prophet said : O Omar are you not satisfied that the grandeur qf this world is for them and the grandeur of the next world is for us ? Hazrat Omar said : O Messenger of God, that is true. The Prophet said : What I said is also true.

Once a man went to Abu Zarr and began to look at his house.
Then he said : O Abu Zarr, I don't find any house-hold goods in your house. What is the reason ? He said : I ha ve got a house (next world) where I send every good thing. He said : So long as you are in this house, you should keep some goods here. He said : The owner of this house will not allow me to live here further. Omar- bin-Sayeed, Governor of Hems, once came to see Omar who asked him : What properties of the world are in your house ? He said : I have got a stick by which I walk and kill any serpent I met with. I have got a bag wherein I keep my eatable things. I have got another cup wherein I eat and wherewith I wash my head and cloth. I have got a badna to make ablution. I carry water therein for drinking and for making ablution. The things beyond these are included within worldly things. Wherever Igo I take these things with me. At this Hazrat Omar said : You have spoken the truth. May God shower His blessings on you.

Once the Prophet returned from a long journey, went to Hazrat Fatema's house and found a screen of varied colours hanging at her door. Fatema was then wearing two pieces of bangles of silver. Seeing this, the Prophet went away from that place without uttering a single word. Hazrat Abu Rafe afterwards went to Fatema and found her weeping. She told Abu Rafe all details and the latter asked her : Has he returned only after seeing one screen and two bangles ? Hazrat Fatema sent Bilal with these two things and asked the Prophet that she was willing to make gift of these two things and that he might give them to whomever he would like. He said : Sell these things and

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makes the price of gift to the companions of Suffa. He sold the two bangles for 2 li dirhams and gifted it to them. Then the Prophet went to Fatema and said : By my father you have done well.