Az-Zuhri reported that a man from Bali said, "I came to visit the
Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, with my father.
My father spoke to him while I was not there. I said to my father, 'What
did he say to you?' He replied, 'When you desire something, then you must
proceed slowly until Allah shows you a way out of it or until Allah makes
a way out for you.'"
Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyya said, "Not wise is he who does not deal
correctly with a person whose company he cannot avoid until Allah appoints
for him a release or a way out."
Al-Bara' ibn 'Azib related that the Prophet, may Allah bless him
and grant him peace, said, "If anyone gives a gift or guides down a land
- or a path - that, for him, is equivalent to freeing a slave."
Abu Dharr is reported as saying, "Your putting some of the water
from your bucket in your brother's bucket is sadaqa. Your removing stones.
thorns and bones from people's path is sadaqa. Your guiding a man in a
place where there are no guides is sadaqa."
