Sunan Ibn Majah 2508

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Muhammad ibn Bashshar narrated to us: Muhammad ibn Khalid ibn Athmah narrated to me: Musa ibn Yaqub al-Zamii narrated to me: my paternal aunt, Quraybah bint Abdullah, told me that her mother, Karimah bint al-Miqdad ibn Amr, informed her, from Dubaaah bint al-Zubayr, from al-Miqdad ibn Amr, that one day he went to al-Baqi, the cemetery, to relieve himself. People would go to relieve themselves only every two or three days, for they would defecate like camels. He then entered a ruin. While he was sitting to relieve himself, he saw a rat bring a dinar out of a hole, then go back in and bring out another, until it had brought out seventeen dinars. Then it brought out the edge of a piece of red cloth. Al-Miqdad said: I pulled out the cloth and found a dinar inside it, making eighteen dinars altogether. I went with them to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and told him what had happened. I said: Take their alms, Messenger of Allah. He said: Take them back; no alms are due on them. May Allah bless them for you. Then he said: Perhaps you put your hand into the hole? I said: No, by the One who honored you with the truth. The last of them did not run out before he died.