Arabic (Original)
حَدَّثَنَا يَعْقُوبُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي عَنِ ابْنِ إِسْحَاقَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي يَحْيَى بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الزُّبَيْرِ أَنَّ أَبَاهُ حَدَّثَهُ عَنْ جَدَّتِهِ أَسْمَاءَ بِنْتِ أَبِي بَكْرٍ قَالَتْ لَمَّا خَرَجَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَخَرَجَ مَعَهُ أَبُو بَكْرٍ احْتَمَلَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ مَالَهُ كُلَّهُ مَعَهُ خَمْسَةَ آلَافِ دِرْهَمٍ أَوْ سِتَّةَ آلَافِ دِرْهَمٍ قَالَتْ وَانْطَلَقَ بِهَا مَعَهُ قَالَتْ فَدَخَلَ عَلَيْنَا جَدِّي أَبُو قُحَافَةَ وَقَدْ ذَهَبَ بَصَرُهُ فَقَالَ وَاللَّهِ إِنِّي لَأَرَاهُ قَدْ فَجَعَكُمْ بِمَالِهِ مَعَ نَفْسِهِ قَالَتْ قُلْتُ كَلَّا يَا أَبَتِ إِنَّهُ قَدْ تَرَكَ لَنَا خَيْرًا كَثِيرًا قَالَتْ فَأَخَذْتُ أَحْجَارًا فَتَرَكْتُهَا فَوَضَعْتُهَا فِي كُوَّةِ الْبَيْتِ كَانَ أَبِي يَضَعُ فِيهَا مَالَهُ ثُمَّ وَضَعْتُ عَلَيْهَا ثَوْبًا ثُمَّ أَخَذْتُ بِيَدِهِ فَقُلْتُ يَا أَبَتِ ضَعْ يَدَكَ عَلَى هَذَا الْمَالِ قَالَتْ فَوَضَعَ يَدَهُ عَلَيْهِ فَقَالَ لَا بَأْسَ إِنْ كَانَ قَدْ تَرَكَ لَكُمْ هَذَا فَقَدْ أَحْسَنَ وَفِي هَذَا لَكُمْ بَلَاغٌ قَالَتْ لَا وَاللَّهِ مَا تَرَكَ لَنَا شَيْئًا وَلَكِنِّي قَدْ أَرَدْتُ أَنْ أُسْكِنَ الشَّيْخَ بِذَلِكَ.
English Translation
Ya'qub told us: My father told us, from Ibn Ishaq, who said: Yahya b. Abd Allah b. al-Zubayr told me that his father told him, from his grandmother Asma' bint Abi Bakr, who said: When the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) set out, and Abu Bakr set out with him, Abu Bakr took all his wealth with him — five thousand dirhams, or six thousand dirhams. She said: And he went off with it. She said: Then our grandfather Abu Quhafah came in to us — he had lost his sight — and said, 'By God, I see that he has grieved you by taking his wealth along with himself.' She said: I said, 'Not at all, father; he has left us much good.' She said: So I took some stones and put them in the wall-niche of the house where my father used to put his money, then placed a garment over them. Then I took his hand and said, 'Father, put your hand on this money.' She said: So he put his hand on it and said, 'There is no harm; if he has left you this, he has done well, and in this there is sufficiency for you.' She said: 'No, by God, he left us nothing, but I wanted to comfort the old man's mind with that.'