Abu Bakar r.a daily allowance from the Baitulmal.

Abu Bakar r.a was a cloth merchant and live by that trade. On the death of the Prophet s.a.w , people selected him as the Khalifah. Next day with some cloth slung on his arm, he was proceeding to the market as usual when Umar r.a met him in the way.

Umar : “Where are you going to Abu Bakar ?”

Abu Bakar : “To Market !”

Umar: “If you get bussy with your trade, who will carry out the duties of the caliphate ?”

Abu Bakar: “How am I to feed my family then ?”

Umar: “Let’s go to Abu Ubaidah (incharge of Baitulmal), who will fix some daily allowance for you from the Baitulmal”

They both went Abu Ubaidah. He fixed for Abu Bakar an allowance equal to that usually paid to an average Muhajirin.

Once Abu Bakar wife said to him: “I would like to have a sweet dish.”

Abu Bakar : “I have no money to arrange for the dish.”

His wife: “If you permit, I shall to try to save something daily from our allowance which will some day make enough to enable us to prepare the sweet dish.”

He agreed. A little money was saved in many days. When his wife brought the money to make purchases for the sweet dish, he said :

“It seems that we received so much over and above our needs.”

He deposited the saving in the Baitulmal and for future got his allowance cut down by amount saved by his wife.