Volume 5, Book 57, Number 16:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
I heard Allah’s Apostle saying, “While I was sleeping, I saw myself standing at a well, on it there
was a bucket. I drew water from the well as much as Allah wished. Then Ibn Abi Quhafa (i.e. Abu
Bakr) took the bucket from me and brought out one or two buckets (of water) and there was weak –
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ness in his drawing the water. May Allah forgive his weakness for him. Then the bucket turned into
a very big one and Ibn Al-Khattab took it over and I had never seen such a mighty person amongst
the people as him in performing such hard work, till the people drank to their satisfaction and
watered their camels that knelt down there.”