The leper, the bald man and the blind man, Three tested with blessings
In the hadithThree tested with blessings
The leper, the bald man and the blind manالأبرص والأقرع والأعمى
Three men healed and made rich; only one remembered where his blessing came from.
Allah sent an angel to three men of Bani Israil. He cured the leper, the bald man and the blind man, and gave them camels, cows and sheep. Years later the angel returned looking like a poor traveller and asked for help. The first two denied they had ever been poor. The once-blind man said, "Take what you like." Allah was pleased with him and angry with the others.
What does the hadith say?
The lesson
Gratitude is shown by giving, not by remembering to say thanks.
Source: hadith
Everyone and everything in the timeline
People named in the Quran and the hadith, the Prophet's ﷺ family and Companions, scholars, rulers, the nations of the Quran, the world's empires and the places where it all happened. Where scholars differ, each entry says so.
People of the hadith
- Hajar
- Jurayj
- The boy of the trench
- The monk of the trench
- The king of the trench
- The three men in the cave
- The man who killed a hundred
- The leper, the bald man and the blind man
- The woman and the cat
- The woman who gave water to a dog
- The man who lent a thousand dinars
- The man who asked his sons to burn him
- The jar of gold
- The man whose charity went astray
- The merchant who forgave debts
- Barsisa
- The last man to enter Paradise
- The Jassasa
- Ibn Sayyad
- Adnan
- Fihr ibn Malik
- Amr ibn Luhay
- Qusayy ibn Kilab
- Abd Manaf
- Hashim ibn Abd Manaf
- Abd al-Muttalib
- Abdullah ibn Abd al-Muttalib
- Aminah bint Wahb
- Thuwaybah
- Halimah al-Sa'diyyah
- Bahira
- Nastur
- Maysarah
- Zayd ibn Amr ibn Nufayl
- Quss ibn Sa'ida
- Waraqa ibn Nawfal
- Abu Talib
- Ashama the Najashi
- Salman's teachers
- Umayyah ibn Abi al-Salt
- Uways al-Qarani