Feeding a fasting Sahabi
One of the Sahabah was keeping fast after fast, as he could not get anything to eat. Hadhrat Thabit (Radhiyallaho Anho) came to know of this. He told his wife, "I shall bring a guest tonight. When we sit at the meal, put out the lamp, pretending to set it right, and you are not to eat anything until the guest has taken his fill."
The scheme worked out as in the last story. The husband and wife sat with the guest and the simple soul never suspected in the least that neither of them had partaken at all of the food, though their hands and jaws seemed to be moving all right.
When Hadhrat Thabit (Radhiyallaho Anho) repaired to the Prophet's (Sallallaho alaihe Wasallam) presence next morning, he was greeted with the happy news, "Oh Thabit! Allah has very much appreciated your entertainment of the guest last night."
Source:http://www.muslims.netfirms.com/pages/stories/sympathy_and_self_sacrifice.htm
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