There was a woman in Arabia whose name was Umm Ja'far. She was extremely generous. She would distribute among people in such a way that the left hand would not know what the right hand had given.

For a few days, she started passing through a path. Two blind men used to sit on that path. Both of them would call out. One's call would be:

"O Allah! Grant me sustenance from Your grace and bounty."

The second blind man would say:

"O Lord! Grant me what is left over from Umm Ja'far."

Umm Ja'far would hear the calls of both and would grant to both.

The person who was seeking Allah's grace, she would give him two dirhams, while to the seeker of her (Umm Ja'far's) grace, she would grant a roasted chicken.

The interesting thing is that the one who received the chicken would sell his chicken to the other blind man for two dirhams. This chain of events continued for many days.

One day Umm Ja'far came to the blind man who used to seek her grace and ask of her, and she asked him a question:

"Have you received a hundred dinars?"

The blind man was astonished. He said:

"No! I only used to get a roasted chicken which I would sell for two dirhams."

Umm Ja'far said:

"The one who was seeking Allah's grace, I used to give him two dirhams, and to you, I kept putting ten dinars inside the roasted chicken and giving it."

The blind man started beating his head.

He began to scream and cry out:

"Alas, my misfortune! I wish I hadn't done that. I am ruined."

Umm Ja'far said:

"Certainly, the seeker of Allah's grace is successful, and the seeker of humans' grace is deprived."

Narrated