Whenever Hazrat Abdullah Ibne Mubarak RA used to go to Raqqa city there was a young man who used to come to meet him and ask questions about religion. On one of his visits he didn't meet that person. When he asked people they told him that he had accumulated huge amounts of debt which he couldn't repay so the person who had loaned him the money had gotten him arrested. Hazrat Abdullah  Ibne Mubarak RA felt sad when he heard this. He asked how much the loan was and who the creditor was. People told him that it was 10,000 Dinar. Hazrat Abdullah Ibne Mubarak RA found the creditor and said to him, "One of my friends is in jail because of your loan that he couldn't repay. I will repay your entire debt but on one condition. You will never tell him as long as I am alive that I had repaid his debt." The person agreed.

When the young man got released from prison he came to meet Hazrat Abdullah Ibne Mubarak. When asked he told him that he had been in jail till suddenly Allah Ta'alah sent some angel of mercy who repaid all his debt and that's how he got released from jail. Hazrat Abdullah Ibne Mubarak told him to thank Allah for his release, and also told him that he had been praying for him.

As long as Hazrat Abdullah Ibne Mubarak lived the young man never found out who had repaid his loan as the creditor had promised that he won't reveal the name in Hazrat Abdullah Ibne Mubarak's life. Only after he passed away did he tell the young man who had repaid his loan.

Adapted from the talk "Value your time" by Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani DB