A short Story From Musa alayh Salaat wa salaam

1. The Prophet ﺻﻠﻰ ﺍﻟﻠﻪ ﻋﻠﻴﻪ ﻭ ﺳﻠﻢ : Musa was a shy person and used to cover his body completely
because of his extensive shyness.
2. One of the Children of Israel annoyed him by saying, 'He covers his body in this way only
because of some defect in his skin, either
3. Leprosy or scrotal hernia, or he had some other defect.' Allah wished to clear Musa of what
they said about him, so one day while Musa
4. Was in seclusion, he took off his clothes and put them on a stone and started taking a
bath. When he had finished the bath, he moved
5. His clothes so as to take them, but the stone took his clothes and fled. Musa picked up his
stick and ran after the stone saying,
6. 'O stone! Give me my clothes!' Till he reached a group of Bani Israel who saw him naked
then, and found him the best of what Allah has
7. Created; and Allah cleared him of what they had accused him of. The stone stopped there
and Musa took and put his garment on and started
8. Hitting the stone with his stick. By Allah, the stone has some traces of the hitting, three,
four or five marks. This was what Allah
9. Refers to in His saying: 'O you who believe! Do not be like those, who annoyed Musa, but
Allah cleared him of that which they alleged and
10. He was honorable before Allah' [33:69] •Hadith Narrated by Abu Hurayrah ﺭﺿﻲ ﺍﻟﻠﻪ ﻋﻨﻪ
[Sahih Bukhari: 4/3404]