August 03, 2004


A Good Deal

Abu Hurayrah radhiallahu `anhu quoted Rasulullah sallallahu `alayhi wa sallam as saying:

A man bought a piece of land from another man and the buyer found an earthenware jar filled with gold under the ground. The buyer said to the seller, "Take your gold, as I have bought only the land from you and I have not bought the gold from you."

The (former) owner of the land said, "I have sold you the land with everything in it."

So both of them took their case before a man who asked, "Do you have children?" One of them said, "I have a son." The other said, "I have a daughter."

The man said, "Marry the girl to the boy and spend the money on both of them and give the rest of it in charity."

~ Bukhari & Muslim