40 Hadīths For Children With Stories Episode 3: The Coat

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*40 Hadīths For Children With Stories*

*Episode 3:  The Coat*

Ahmad the shepherd was very sad. He had lost almost everything he owned during the terrible years of war. His wife had died and he had also lost his son. When he lost his job in town, he began to work as a shepherd in the countryside.

One day, as his sheep grazed near the road, he saw a group of people taking a young man to the hospital in town. It was obvious that this young man was even poorer than him. He was shivering in his thin jacket. Ahmad the shepherd immediately took off his own coat, which he had owned for years, and put it on the young man.

As the young man was waiting in the hospital to be examined, he was surprised to hear someone calling him "Dad." He looked up but he couldn't recognise the young man standing in front of him. The latter who had called him Dad, was surprised as well.

He apologised, saying, "I'm sorry, sir. I had mistaken your coat for my father's, whom I haven't seen for many years. I thought you were my father."

The sick man asked him who his father was. After talking for a few minutes, he realised that the young man was the lost son of Ahmad the shepherd. He told the young man that he did not make a mistake and that the coat had really belonged to his father. After being examined at the hospital, he returned to the village, accompanied by shepherd Ahmad's son. 

How true is the saying of our beloved Prophet Muhammad (Blessings and Peace of Allāh be upon him):

إن الحسنةبعشرأمثالها

رواه البخاري

*"Every kindness will be rewarded tenfold."*

*[Bukhāri]*

Source of the Hadīth: Bukhāri, Kitāb al-Sawm, Hadīth Number 56.

 *Pearls of Motivation*

Don’t keep asking why bad things happen to good people. Almighty Allāh has promised us that we will all be tested. He puts us through tests because He knows when you’re at your lowest that you’re most likely to get closer to Him!