Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 10075 — What has come on urging charity

Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: A monk remained (occupied in worship) in his place of worship for sixty years. A woman came and settled beside him, and the monk kept going to her for six nights. Then, out of remorse for what he had done, he fled from there and took refuge in a mosque, and he stayed in the mosque for three days without eating or drinking anything. (After three days) a loaf of bread was brought to him; he broke it into two parts and gave half to the man on his right and the other half of the loaf to the man on his left. Then the Angel of Death came and took the monk's soul. His sixty years of deeds were placed in one pan of the scale and the sin in the other pan, and the pan of sins outweighed it. Then that loaf (which he had given in charity) was brought, and with that loaf placed in it, the pan of good deeds outweighed the pan of sins.