Ibn ‘Umar said that the Prophet assigned to az-Zubair the land his horse could cover at a run. He made his horse run, and when it stopped he threw his whip. He then said, “Give it to him up to the spot his whip has reached.”
Narrated He reported God’s Messenger as saying, “There are three to whom God will not speak and at whom He will not look on the day of resurrection:
a man who swears falsely about some merchandise that he has previously received a larger offer than he has now been given; a man who swears a false oath after the afternoon prayer to deprive thereby a Muslim of his property; and a man who withholds excess water. God will say, ‘Today I am withholding from you my grace*as you withheld excess water which was not produced by the efforts of your hands’."
(Bukhari and Muslim.)
*The word for grace (fadl) is the same as the word for excess.
