Bakr b. 'Abdullah al-Muzani said: While I was sitting along with Ibn 'Abbas (Allaah be pleased with him) near the Ka'ba, there came a bedouin to him and said: What is the matter that I see that the progeny of your uncle supply honey and milk (as drink to the travellers), whereas you supply al-nabidh (water sweetened with dates)? Is it due to your poverty or due to your close-fistedness? Thereupon Ibn 'Abbas said: Allaah be praised, it is neither due to poverty nor due to close-fistedness (but due to the fact) that Allaah's Prophet (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) came here riding his she-came, and there was sitting behind him Usama. He asked for water, and we gave him a cup full of nabidh and he drank it, and gave the remaining (part) to Usama; and he (the Prophet) said: You have done Food, You have done well. So continue doing like it So we do not like to change what Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) had commanded us to do.
|