The potter and the farmer in-laws

45. Muhammad Bin Yahya, form Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from Ibn Fazzaal, from Abdullah Bin Bukeyr and Sa’alba Bin Maymoun and Ali Bin Uqba, from Zarara, from Abdul Malik who said: ‘A discussion took place between Abu Ja’far عليه الصلاة والسلام and the children of Al-Hassan عليه الصلاة والسلام. That reached me, so I came up to Abu Ja’far عليه الصلاة والسلام to speak to him عليه الصلاة والسلام about it. He عليه الصلاة والسلام said to me: ‘Shhh! Do not interfere in what is in between us عليه الصلاة والسلام, for our عليه الصلاة والسلام example and the example of the sons of our عليه الصلاة والسلام uncle is like the man who was in the Children of Israel who had two daughters. So he married one of them to a farmer and married the other one to a potter. Then he went to visit them both. So he first went to the wife of the farmer and said to her, ‘What is your condition?’ She said, ‘The farm of my husband is a large farm, so if Allah عز وجل were to send (rain from) the sky, we would be in the best condition of the Children of Israel’. Then he went to the wife of the potter, so he said to her, ‘What is your condition?’ She said, ‘My husband has worked to produce a lot of pottery, so if Allah عز وجل were to Withhold (the rain from) the sky, we would be in the best condition of the Children of Israel’. So he left and he was saying, ‘Our Allah عز وجل You are for them both’, and that is how it is with us’.