Abdullah Ibn Mubarak’s slave
Abdullah Ibn Mubarak had a slave who he had promised liberty to if he earned and then paid him one hundred dinars. Due to this
request the slave began making daily payments. One day a friend of Mubarak told him, “Your slave passes the graveyard everyday, steals the coffins of the dead and pays you what he gets after selling them in the market”. Irritated at this Mubarak followed his slave one night into the graveyard to find out the truth.
There he saw the slave wearing a sack cloth and an iron ring around his neck descending into a grave lamenting and praying till morning.
Then he retired to a mosque, Mubarak followed him. There he continued praying, “Oh Allah shortly I shall have to pay the day’s wages to the master of my physical body”. Immediately a light appeared before him. It fell into the palm of his hands and was converted into dinars. As he rose to go home and deliver the money, Abdullah Ibn Mubarak came out from his hiding place and addressing his slave said “From today let us change places, you be the master and I your slave.” (Tadhkeratul Auliya)
Aal-e-Qutub Aal-e-Syed Abdullah Shah Ghazi 