English translation
3404. Narrated Abū Hurairah: رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ (Prophet) Mūsā (Moses) was a shy person and used to cover his body completely because of his extensive shyness. One of the people of Isrāēl annoyed him by saying, 'He covers his body in this way only because of some defect in his skin, either leprosy or scrotal hernia, or he has some other defect.' Allāh wished to clear Mūsā of what they said about him, so one day while Mūsā was in seclusion, he took off his clothes and put them on a stone and started taking a bath. When he had finished the bath, he moved towards his clothes so as to take them, but the stone took his clothes and fled; Mūsā picked up his stick and ran after the stone saying, 'O stone! Give me my garment!' Till he reached a group of Bani Isrāēl who saw him naked then, and found him the best of what Allāh had created, and Allāh cleared him of what they had accused him of. The stone stopped there and Mūsā took and put his garment on and started hitting the stone with his stick. By Allāh, the stone still has some traces of the hitting, three, four or five marks. This was what Allāh said in His Statement: 'O you who believe! Be not like those who annoyed Mūsā, but Allāh cleared him of that which they alleged, and he was honourable before Allāh.' (V.33:69)