English translation
4351. Narrated Abū Sa'īd Al-Khudrī: 'Alī bin Abī Ṭālib رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ sent a piece of gold not yet taken out of its ore, in a tanned leather container to Allāh's Messenger ﷺ. Allāh's Messenger ﷺ distributed that amongst four persons: 'Uyaina bin Badr, Aqra' bin Ḥābis, Zaid Al-Khail and the (1) (H: 4350) Buraida hated 'Alī because he had taken a slave-girl from the booty and considered that as something hateful. fourth was either 'Alqama or 'Āmir bin Aṭ-Ṭufail. On that, one of his Companions said, "We are more deserving of this (gold) than these (persons)." When that news reached the Prophet ﷺ, he said, "Don't you trust me though I am the trustworthy man of the One in the heavens, and I receive the news of heaven (i.e., Divine Revelation) both in the morning and in the evening?" There got up a man with sunken eyes, raised cheek bones, raised forehead, a thick beard, a shaven head and a waist sheet that was tucked up and he said, "O Allāh's Messenger! Be afraid of Allāh." The Prophet ﷺ said, "Woe to you! Am I not of all the people of the earth the most entitled to fear Allāh?" Then that man went away. Khālid bin Al-Walid said, "O Allāh's Messenger! Shall I chop his neck off?" The Prophet ﷺ said, "No, may be he offers Ṣalāt (prayers)." Khālid said, "Numerous are those who offer Ṣalāt (prayers) and say by their tongues (i.e., mouths) what is not in their hearts." Allāh's Messenger ﷺ said, "I have not been ordered (by Allāh) to search the hearts of the people or cut open their bellies." Then the Prophet ﷺ looked at him (i.e., that man) while the latter was going away and said, "From the offspring of this (man) there will come out (people) who will recite the Qur'ān continuously and elegantly but it will not exceed their throats. (They will neither understand it nor act upon it.) They would go out of the religion (i.e., Islām) as an arrow goes out through a game's body." I think he also said, "If I should be present at their time, I would kill them as the nations of Thamūd were killed."