ABU BAKR’S SCRUPULOUS CONSCIENCE
Abu Bakr, may Allah be pleased with him, never ate unlawful food. It is said that he had a slave who used to give him a portion of his daily income as the master’s share.
Once he brought him some food, and Abu Bakr took a morsel out of it. Then the slave said to him: “You always inquired about the source of what I bring to you, but today you have not done so.” Abu Bakr replied: “1 felt so hungry that I failed to do that. Tell me now, whence did you bring this food?” The slave said: “Before embracing Islam, I practised soothsaying. During these days, I came across some people for whom I practised some of my charms. They promised to pay me for that later on. 1 happened to pass by those people today, while they were engaged in a marriage ceremony, and they gave me this food. On saying this, Abu Bakr exclaimed, “Ah! You would have surely killed me?” Then he tried to disgorge the morsel he had swallowed, but he could not do so, as his stomach had been quite empty. Somebody suggested to him to take water to his fill and then retch it. Thereupon Abu Bakr sent for a goblet of water and kept on taking water and forcing it out, till he vomited out the morsel.
Somebody remarked: “May Allah have mercy on you! You put yourself to such trouble for a single morsel.” To this Abu Bakr replied: “I would have thrust it out even if l had to lose my life, for I heard the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, say: “Any flesh which has grown out of unlawful earnings will nor enter Paradise.” I, therefore, made haste to clear my stomach of this morsel, lest any portion of my body should receive nourishment from it. “(Reported by Abu Nu’aym.)
(Source: Biographies of the Rightly Guided Caliphs.)
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