Al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3468 — What happened among the Children

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: "A monk worshipped Allah Almighty in his cell for sixty years. Then a woman came and stayed beside him, so the monk came down to her and spent six nights with her. Then he became deeply remorseful and regretful over his slip and fled from there. Then he reached a mosque and stayed there for three days in such a state that he had eaten nothing. Meanwhile a loaf of bread was given to him, so he broke it into two pieces and gave half the loaf to a poor man on his right and the other half to another poor man on his left. Then Allah Almighty took his soul. So when his sixty years of worship were placed in one pan of the scale of deeds and those six nights in the other, the six nights outweighed them (because of the burden of sin). Then when those six nights were weighed against the charity of that one loaf, the loaf proved heavier than them."
Takhrij: This report is sahih (authentic); Imam Ishaq bin Rahwayh recorded it in his Musnad (3468), Ibn Abi Shaybah in al-Musannaf (34484) and al-Bayhaqi in Shu'ab al-Iman (3144).