English Translation

Hadrat Zainab Ath-Thaqafiyah (may Allah be well pleased with her) the wife of Hadrat 'Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be well pleased with him) reported that when Beloved Messenger of Allah (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) instructed the women that they should give Sadaqah (charity), even if it should be some of their jewellery, I returned to Hadrat 'Abdullah bin Mas'ud and said, "You are a man who does not possess much, and Beloved Messenger of Allah (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) has commanded us to give Sadaqah. So go and ask him if giving to you will serve the purpose; otherwise, I shall give it to someone else." He asked me that I should better go myself. I went and found a woman of the Ansar at the door of Beloved Messenger of Allah (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him), waiting to ask a similar question as mine. The Noble Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) was endowed with dignity, and so we could not go in. When Hadrat Bilal (may Allah be well pleased with him) came out to us, we said to him: "Go to Beloved Messenger of Allah (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) and tell him that there are two women at the door who have come to ask him whether it will serve them to give Sadaqah to their husbands and to orphans who are in their charge, but do not tell him who we are. Hadrat Bilal (may Allah be well pleased with him) went in and asked him, and Beloved Messenger of Allah (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) inquired him who the women were. When he told him that they were a woman of the Ansar and Hadrat Zainab, he asked him which Hadrat Zainab it was, and when he was told it was the wife of Hadrat 'Abdullah bin Mas'ud, he (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) said, "They will have a double reward, one for maintaining the ties of kinship and another for Sadaqah"..