Hadhrat Abu Bakr's رضي الله عنه Daily Allowance from the Bait-ul Maal..

Hadhrat Abu Bakr (Radi-Allahu-Anhu) was a cloth merchant and lived by that trade. On the day of the death of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم, people selected him as the Khalifa. 

The next day with some cloth slung on his
arms, he was proceeding to the market as usual when 'Umar(Radi-Allahu-Anhu) met him on the way.

'Umar (Radi-Allahu-Anhu): "Where are you going to, Abu Bakr'?"
Abu Bakr (Radi-Allahu-Anhu):" To the market"
'Umar (Radi-Allahu-Anhu): "if you get busy with your trade, who will carry out the duties of the Khalifa?"
Abu Bakr (Radi-Allahu-Anhu): "How am I to feed my family then?" .
'Umar (Radi-Allahu-Anhu):"let's go to Abu Ubaidah (In charge ofBait-ul-Maal), who will fix some daily allowance for you from the Bait-ul-Maal."

They both went to Abu Ubaidah (Radi-Allahu-Anhu). He fixed for Abu Bakr (Radi-Allahu-Anhu) allowance equal to that usually paid to an average Muhajir.

Once Abu Bakr (Radi-Allahu-Anhu)'s wife said to him: "I would like to have a sweet dish."
Abu Bakr (Radi-Allahu-Anhu): I have no money to arrange for the dish."
His wife: "If you permit, I shall try to save something daily from our allowance, which will one 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 him the money to make purchases for the sweet dish, he said:
"It seems that we have received so much over and above our needs."
He then Redeposited the saving in the Bait-ul-Maal and for the future got his allowance cut down by the amount saved by his wife.

Hadhrat Aaisha (Radi-Allahu-Anha) narrates:
"When Abu Bakr (Radi-Allahu-Anhu) was selected as Khalifah, he said to the people: 'You well know that I live by trade, and my income therefrom is sufficient to meet my expenses. Now I have to devote my full time to the affairs of the state and therefore my family allowance shall be paid from the 'Bait-ul-Maal.'
Hadhrat Aaisha (Radi-Allahu-Anhua) says:
At the time of his death, Abu Bakr (Radi-Allahu-Anhu) directed me to hand over to his successor all that was issued to him from the Bait-ul-Maal for his house-hold needs. It is said that Hadhrat Abu Bakr (Radi-Allahu-Anhu) left no cash after him.

Anas (Radi-Allahu-Anhu) says: "Abu Bakr (Radi-Allahu-Anhu) left a milch she-camel, a bowl and a servant."
According to some other narrators, he left bedding also. When all these were made over to 'Umar (Radi-Allahu-Anhu), his sucessor, he remarked "May Allah be merciful to Abu Bakr! He has set a precedent for his successors which is very hard to follow."

Story taken from Fazail-e-Aamal

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