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Sunan an-Nasai 3955 (Book 36, Hadith 17) #18488
Kindness and Patience in Difficult Situations

SUMMARY: The Prophet showed kindness and patience when a Mother of the Believers broke a bowl while sending food to him. He waited for her to bring another bowl and gave it to the messenger, leaving the broken one in her house.

Anas said: "The Prophet was with one of the Mothers of the Believers when another one sent a wooden bowl in which was some food. She struck the hand of the Prophet and the bowl fell and broke. The Prophet picked up the two pieces and put them together, then he started to gather up the food and said: 'Your mother got jealous; eat'. So they ate. He waited until she brought the wooden bowl that was in her house, then he gave the sound bowl to the messenger and left the broken bowl in the house of the one who had broken it".
أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّى، قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا خَالِدٌ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا حُمَيْدٌ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَنَسٌ، قَالَ كَانَ النَّبِيُّ عِنْدَ إِحْدَى أُمَّهَاتِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ فَأَرْسَلَتْ أُخْرَى بِقَصْعَةٍ فِيهَا طَعَامٌ فَضَرَبَتْ يَدَ الرَّسُولِ فَسَقَطَتِ الْقَصْعَةُ فَانْكَسَرَتْ فَأَخَذَ النَّبِيُّ الْكِسْرَتَيْنِ فَضَمَّ إِحْدَاهُمَا إِلَى الأُخْرَى فَجَعَلَ يَجْمَعُ فِيهَا الطَّعَامَ وَيَقُولُ ‏ "‏ غَارَتْ أُمُّكُمْ كُلُوا ‏"‏ ‏.‏ فَأَكَلُوا فَأَمْسَكَ حَتَّى جَاءَتْ بِقَصْعَتِهَا الَّتِي فِي بَيْتِهَا فَدَفَعَ الْقَصْعَةَ الصَّحِيحَةَ إِلَى الرَّسُولِ وَتَرَكَ الْمَكْسُورَةَ فِي بَيْتِ الَّتِي كَسَرَتْهَا

TOPICS
kindness  *  patience  *  food  *  bowl  *  hilm  *  sabr  *  tayyibah  *  qadah

QUICK LESSONS:
Show kindness & patience even when things don't go our way or someone makes mistakes around us .

EXPLANATIONS:
This hadith narrated by Anas ibn Malik tells us about how Prophet Muhammad showed kindness and patience even in difficult situations. In this incident, one of the Mothers of the Believers sent food to him in a wooden bowl which she accidentally broke while handing it over. Instead of getting angry or scolding her, he calmly picked up both pieces of the broken bowl and gathered up all the food that had spilled out from it. He then said “Your mother got jealous; eat” as if nothing had happened, showing his understanding towards her emotions. After that he waited until she brought another wooden bowl from her house so that he could give it to his messenger instead of taking away hers which was already broken. This teaches us an important lesson about being kind and patient even when things don’t go our way or someone makes a mistake around us; we should not get angry but rather show understanding towards them like Prophet Muhammad did here with this Mother of Believers.

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