He first visited the daughter who was the wife of the farmer...

He first visited the daughter who was the wife of the farmer and reaching her house, he inquired about her health. The daughter sai d: “Dear father, my husband has cultivated a large area of land and if it were to rain, we would be the most prosperous of the entire Bani Israel.” Then, proceeding towards the house of the other daughter, whose husband was a potter, he inquired about her health.

The daughter said, “Dear father, my husband has moulded pots in great quantity and if God were to withhold the rains till his pots dry up, we would be better off than the entire Bani Israel.” As he departed from the house of his second daughter, he prayed **:** “O’ God! Act as You deem fit for, in this situation, I cannot pray for either of them.” The Imam then said to me, “You too cannot intervene in this matter. Be wary, lest you show disrespect to either of us.

Your responsibility towards us, because of our relationship with the Holy Prophet, is to treat all of us with deference and esteem*.*”[^4]49 Reward of Reconciliation Fudhail Ibn A’yyadh says: A distressed man once took some rope, which his wife had woven, to the market in order to sell it so as to save himself and his family from hunger. Having sold it for one dirham, he intended to purchase some bread when he came across two persons quarrelling and trading blows with one another over one dirham.

The man stepped forward, gave them a dirham and established peace between them. Empty-handed once again, he went home and narrated the entire incident to his wife. She expressed happiness over his conduct. On searching the house, she found an old dress, which she handed to her husband, so that he could sell it and procure some food. The man brought the dress to the market but there was nobody willing to buy it from him. Looking around, he saw a person with a putrefied fish in his hand.

He approached the man and said, “Let us exchange our goods. You give me your fish and I shall hand you my dress*.*” The fish-seller agreed and the man returned home with the fish. His wife busied herself with cleaning the fish when, suddenly, something valuable popped out of its stomach. She handed the object to her husband to sell in the market.