Miqdad reported, "Two companions and I came forward in such a state of exhaustion that our hearing and sight had grown weak. We began offering ourselves to the companions of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, but no one would take us in. So we went to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and he took us to his household, where there were three goats. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, 'Milk these and share the milk among us.'So we used to milk them, and each person would drink his share, and we would set aside the share of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. He would come at night and give the greeting in such a way that it did not wake anyone asleep, but the one awake would hear it. Then he would go to the mosque and pray, after which he would come to his drink and drink it.One night Satan came to me and said, 'Muhammad goes to the Ansar and they offer him gifts, and he gets from them whatever he needs. He has no need of this little drink, so drink it yourself.' He kept making it appealing to me until I drank it. Once it had settled in my stomach and he knew there was no way to retrieve it, he made me regret it. He said, 'Woe to you! What have you done? You have drunk Muhammad's drink. He will come and not find it, and he will pray against you, and you will perish, losing both this world and the next.'I had a woolen wrap over me, and whenever I pulled it up over my head, my feet stuck out, and whenever I let it down over my feet, my head was uncovered. Sleep would not come to me. As for my two companions, they slept.The Messenger of Allah ﷺ came and gave the greeting as he usually did, then went to the mosque and prayed. Then he came to his drink, uncovered it, and found nothing in it. He raised his head to the sky.I said to myself, 'Now he will pray against me and I will perish.'But he said, 'O Allah, feed whoever has fed me, and give drink to whoever has given me drink.'So I took hold of the wrap, fastened it around me, picked up the knife, and went to the goats to feel which of them was the fattest so I could slaughter it for the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. But I found them all heavy with milk. So I went to a vessel belonging to the family of Muhammad, one they had never expected to be milked into," and Abu Nadr said another time, "one they had never expected to milk into," "and I milked into it until the foam rose to the top. Then I brought it to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.He asked, 'Did you not drink your drink tonight, Miqdad?'I said, 'Drink, Messenger of Allah.'So he drank, then handed it to me.I said, 'Messenger of Allah, drink.'So he drank, then handed it to me. I took what was left and drank it. When I knew that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ had been satisfied and that his prayer had reached me, I laughed until I fell to the ground.The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, 'One of your antics, Miqdad?'I said, 'Messenger of Allah, my situation was such and such, and I did such and such.'The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, 'This was nothing but a mercy from Allah. Why did you not let me know so we could wake your two companions and they could have some of it too?'I said, 'By the One who sent you with the truth, once you and I had what we did, I do not care who else among the people had it.'"
حدثنا هاشم بن القاسم حدثنا سليمان يعني ابن المغيرة عن ثابت عن عبد الرحمن بن أبي ليلى
أقبلت أنا وصاحبان لي قد ذهبت أسماعنا وأبصارنا من الجهد قال فجعلنا نعرض أنفسنا على أصحاب رسول الله ﷺ ليس أحد يقبلنا قال فانطلقنا إلى رسول الله ﷺ فانطلق بنا إلى أهله فإذا ثلاث أعنز فقال رسول الله ﷺ احتلبوا هذا اللبن بيننا قال فكنا نحتلب فيشرب كل إنسان نصيبه ونرفع لرسول الله ﷺ نصيبه فيجيء من الليل فيسلم تسليما لا يوقظ نائما ويسمع اليقظان ثم يأتي المسجد فيصلي ثم يأتي شرابه فيشربه قال فأتاني الشيطان ذات ليلة فقال محمد يأتي الأنصار فيتحفونه ويصيب عندهم ما به حاجة إلى هذه الجرعة فاشربها قال ما زال يزين لي حتى شربتها فلما وغلت في بطني وعرف أنه ليس إليها سبيل قال ندمني فقال ويحك ما صنعت شربت شراب محمد فيجيء ولا يراه فيدعو عليك فتهلك فتذهب دنياك وآخرتك قال وعلي شملة من صوف كلما رفعتها على رأسي خرجت قدماي وإذا أرسلت على قدمي خرج رأسي وجعل لا يجيء لي نوم قال وأما صاحباي فناما فجاء رسول الله ﷺ فسلم كما كان يسلم ثم أتى المسجد فصلى فأتى شرابه فكشف عنه فلم يجد فيه شيئا فرفع رأسه إلى السماء قال قلت الآن يدعو علي فأهلك فقال اللهم أطعم من أطعمني واسق من سقاني قال فعمدت إلى الشملة فشددتها لي فأخذت الشفرة فانطلقت إلى الأعنز أجسهن أيهن أسمن فأذبح لرسول الله ﷺ فإذا هن حفل كلهن فعمدت إلى إناء لآل محمد ما كانوا يطمعون أن يحلبوا فيه وقال أبو النضر مرة أخرى أن يحتلبوا فيه فحلبت فيه حتى علته الرغوة ثم جئت به إلى رسول الله ﷺ فقال أما شربتم شرابكم الليلة يا مقداد قال قلت اشرب يا رسول الله فشرب ثم ناولني فقلت يا رسول الله اشرب فشرب ثم ناولني فأخذت ما بقي فشربت فلما عرفت أن رسول الله ﷺ قد روي فأصابتني دعوته ضحكت حتى ألقيت إلى الأرض قال رسول الله ﷺ إحدى سوآتك يا مقداد قال قلت يا رسول الله كان من أمري كذا صنعت كذا فقال رسول الله ﷺ ما كانت هذه إلا رحمة من الله ألا كنت آذنتني نوقظ صاحبيك هذين فيصيبان منها قال قلت والذي بعثك بالحق ما أبالي إذا أصبتها وأصبتها معك من أصابها من الناس