The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to me, "When the wealth of Bahrain comes, I will give you this much, this much, and this much," gesturing three times.The wealth of Bahrain did not arrive until after the Messenger of Allah ﷺ had passed away. When it reached Abu Bakr, he ordered an announcer to proclaim, "Whoever had a debt or a promise from the Prophet ﷺ, let him come to me."Jabir said, So I went to Abu Bakr and told him that the Prophet ﷺ had said, "If the wealth of Bahrain comes, I will give you this much, this much, and this much," three times. So Abu Bakr gave me what was promised.Jabir continued, Later I met Abu Bakr and asked him for something, but he did not give me anything. I came to him again, and he did not give me anything. I came a third time, and again he did not give me anything. So I said to him, "I came to you and you did not give me, then I came to you and you did not give me, then I came to you and you did not give me. Either give me something, or be miserly toward me."He replied, "Did you say, 'be miserly toward me'? What disease is worse than miserliness?" He said this three times, then added, "I never refused you a single time except that I intended to give you."Amr reported from Muhammad bin Ali that he heard Jabir bin Abdullah say, I came to him, and Abu Bakr said to me, "Count it." I counted it and found it to be five hundred. Then he said, "Take the same amount twice more."
قال لي رسول الله ﷺ: لو قد جاء مال البحرين لقد أعطيتك هكذا وهكذا ثلاثا. فلم يقدم مال البحرين حتى قبض رسول الله ﷺ، فلما قدم على أبي بكر أمر مناديا فنادى: من كان له عند النبي ﷺ دين أو عدة فليأتني. قال جابر: فجئت أبا بكر، فأخبرته أن النبي ﷺ قال: لو جاء مال البحرين أعطيتك هكذا وهكذا ثلاثا. قال: فأعطاني. قال جابر: فلقيت أبا بكر بعد ذلك فسألته، فلم يعطني، ثم أتيته فلم يعطني، ثم أتيته الثالثة فلم يعطني، فقلت له: قد أتيتك فلم تعطني، ثم أتيتك فلم تعطني، ثم أتيتك فلم تعطني، فإما أن تعطيني، وإما أن تبخل عني. فقال: أقلت تبخل عني؟ وأي داء أدوأ من البخل، قالها ثلاثا، ما منعتك من مرة إلا وأنا أريد أن أعطيك. وعن عمرو عن محمد بن علي سمعت جابر بن عبد الله يقول: جئته، فقال لي أبو بكر: عدها. فعددتها فوجدتها خمسمائة، فقال خذ مثلها مرتين.
Bukhari narrated it in the Book of Military Expeditions (4383), and Muslim narrated it in the Book of Virtues (2314:60), both of them through the route of Sufyan bin Uyayna, from Ibn Munkadir, that he heard Jabir bin Abdullah say, and then he mentioned it.