Sahih Muslim Hadith 7473 – The Virtue Of

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[7473] 45 (2984) It was tit.. ( YA W— E 0 [vtvrl narrated from Abü Hurairah that 5 )_ft•_ the Prophet ç said: "While a – man was in the wilderness, he heard a voice in a cloud (saying): 'Irrigate the garden of so-and-so.' :JjjL The cloud moved and sent its water onto stony ground, where there was one of these channels that absorbed all of that water. He followed the water, and found a man standing in his garden, and diverting that water with his shovel. He said to him: '0 slave of Allah, what is your name?' He said: 'So-and-so' – the same name that he had heard from the cloud. He said to him: '0 slave of Allah, why did you ask me about my name?' He said: 'I heard a voice in the cloud from which this water came, saying: "Irrigate the garden of so-and-so," and it was your name. What will you do with it?' He said: 'As you have said this, I look at what it produces, and I give one-third in charity, my family and I eat one- third, and I use one-third as seeds for the next crop."