Biography of the UMM MALIK al-Ansari

used to send clarified butter in a small skin to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.

Her sons would ask her for condiments when they had none, and she would go to that skin and give them from its contents.

Each time she would go to the skin, she would find it full with clarified butter, even though she had not added any butter to it, until one day she squeezed it completely empty.

She went to the Prophet ﷺ and informed him of this.

He ﷺ said to her, "Did you squeeze it completely empty?"

She said, "Yes."

He ﷺ said to her: 

لَوْ تَرَكْتِيهَا مَا زَالَ قَائِمًا.

If you would have left some, it would have continued to provide for you.

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