'Abdullah Ibn Salam meriwayatkan, "Setelah Allah Yang Mahakuasa menyempurnakan penciptaan manusia, mereka berdiri dan mengarahkan pandangan mereka ke langit seraya berkata, 'Wahai Tuhan! Kepada siapa Engkau akan memberikan pertolongan-Mu?' Allah berfirman, 'Aku akan memberikan pertolongan-Ku kepada orang yang teraniaya hingga ia memperoleh haknya.'"
Wahb Ibn Munabih meriwayatkan, "Seorang raja zalim telah membangun sebuah istana untuk dirinya sendiri. Kemudian, seorang wanita tua miskin datang dan membuat gubuk kecil dari ranting di samping istana itu untuk tempat tinggalnya. Suatu hari, ketika raja sedang berjalan-jalan mengelilingi istana, ia melihat gubuk itu. Dengan marah, ia bertanya kepada para pelayannya, 'Ini gubuk siapa?' Setelah diberitahu bahwa gubuk itu milik seorang wanita miskin, ia memerintahkan agar gubuk itu dibongkar. Ketika wanita miskin itu datang dan melihat gubuknya telah hancur, ia bertanya dengan sedih, 'Siapa yang telah merobohkan gubukku?' Ia dijawab, 'Raja.' Pada saat itu ia mengarahkan wajahnya ke langit dan berdoa kepada Allah, seraya berkata, 'Wahai Tuhan! Aku memang tidak hadir (ketika gubukku dihancurkan), tetapi Engkau tidak pernah tidak hadir!' Pada saat doanya itu, Allah mewahyukan kepada Jibril agar membalikkan istana itu."
Khalid Ibn Barmak bersama putranya pernah mengalami masa pemenjaraan. Mengingat hari-hari yang telah berlalu, sang putra berkata, "Wahai ayah! Setelah hari-hari indah yang kita jalani, kini kita berada di penjara." Ayahnya menjawab, "Wahai anakku! Kita dulu tidak memperhatikan doa orang yang teraniaya, yang diterima Allah, dan Allah tidak pernah lalai."
'Abdullah Ibn Salam related, "After Allah the Almighty had perfected the creation of mankind, they got up on their feet and directed their gazes towards the sky, saying, "O Lord! Whom would you give your help?" Allah declared, "I would grant My Help upon the offended until he gets his due right." W ahb Ibn Munabih narrated, "A tyrant king had built a palace for himself. Later, a poor old woman came and made a small hut of twigs beside the palace to reside therein. One day, while the king was wandering round the palace, he saw the hut. Angrily, he asked his servants, "Whose hut is this?" Once he was informed that it was owned by a poor woman, he gave a command to remove it. As the poor woman came and saw her hut in ruins, she questioned with sorrow, "Who has demolished my hut?" She was answered, "It was the king". At this moment she directed her face forward the sky and invoked Allah, saying, "O Lord! I was actually absent (when my hut was destroyed) but You are never absent!" At the time of her Du'a' Allah revealed to Gabriel to turn the palace upside down." Khalid Ibn Barmak along with his son had once suffered imprisonment. Remembering the past days, the son said, "O father! After the luxuriant days we had, now we are in jail". His father replied, "O son! We paid no attention to the offender's invocation which Allah received and did not neglect".