'Abdullah bin Salam meriwayatkan, "Selepas Allah Yang Maha Tinggi menyempurnakan penciptaan manusia, mereka pun bangun berdiri dan mengarahkan pandangan mereka ke langit, sambil berkata, "Wahai Tuhan! Kepada siapakah Engkau akan memberikan pertolongan-Mu?" Allah berfirman, "Aku akan memberikan pertolongan-Ku kepada orang yang dizalimi sehingga dia mendapat haknya."
Wahb bin Munabbih meriwayatkan, "Seorang raja zalim telah membina sebuah istana untuk dirinya. Kemudian, seorang wanita tua yang miskin datang dan membuat sebuah pondok kecil daripada ranting di sebelah istana itu untuk didiami. Suatu hari, ketika raja sedang berjalan-jalan di sekeliling istana, dia ternampak pondok itu. Dengan marah, dia bertanya kepada hamba-hambanya, "Pondok siapakah ini?" Setelah dimaklumkan bahawa ia dimiliki oleh seorang wanita miskin, dia memerintahkan supaya pondok itu dirobohkan. Apabila wanita tua yang miskin itu datang dan melihat pondoknya telah musnah, dia bertanya dengan sedih, "Siapakah yang telah merobohkan pondokku?" Dia dijawab, "Rajalah yang melakukannya." Pada saat itu, dia mengarahkan wajahnya ke langit dan berdoa kepada Allah, katanya, "Wahai Tuhan! Sebenarnya aku tidak hadir (ketika pondokku dirobohkan), tetapi Engkau tidak pernah tidak hadir!" Ketika wanita itu berdoa, Allah mewahyukan kepada Jibril supaya menterbalikkan istana itu."
Khalid bin Barmak bersama anaknya pernah mengalami pemenjaraan. Mengenang hari-hari yang telah berlalu, anaknya berkata, "Wahai ayah! Setelah hari-hari yang mewah kita alami, kini kita berada di dalam penjara." Ayahnya menjawab, "Wahai anakku! Kita tidak mengendahkan doa orang yang dizalimi yang Allah terima dan tidak Dia abaikan."
'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".