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Authentic hadithUpdated on 24 September 2026 at 12:34 AM
📖 1 min readعن أبي هريرة رضي الله عنه عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم قال: اشترى رجل من رجل عَقَارًا، فوجد الذي اشترى العَقَارَ في عَقَارِه جَرَّةً فيها ذهب، فقال له الذي اشترى العقار: خذ ذهبك، إنما اشتريت منك الأرض ولم أَشْتَرِ الذهب، وقال الذي له الأرض: إنما بِعْتُكَ الأرض وما فيها، فتحاكما إلى رجل، فقال الذي تحاكما إليه: أَلَكُمَا ولد؟ قال أحدهما: لي غلام، وقال الآخر: لي جارية قال: أنكحا الغلام الجارية، وأنفقا على أنفسهما منه وتَصَدَّقَا.
The Prophet (may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him) tells us that a man bought a piece of land from another man and the buyer found gold in it. Out of his strong religious prudence, he returned the gold to the seller because he bought the land, but not the gold. The seller also refused to take it out of his caution and religious prudence, and because he sold the land with everything in it. So, they sought legal settlement and they told the one who judged between them to send someone to take the gold and place it wherever he saw fit. The man refused but asked them if they had children. One of them said that he had a son and the other said he had a daughter. So, he suggested to them to marry the young man to the girl and to use some of the gold for their living expenses and to give some of it in charity.
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