Ibn Adhnan says that I lent Alqamah two thousand dirhams. When the time for repayment came, I went to him and said: "Pay me back my loan." He said: "Give me respite until next year." (I accepted his request and after a year) I came to collect the loan, then after that I came a third time. He said: "You are insistent on troubling me, and you have restrained me." I said: "Yes, that is your own action." He said: "How is it my action?" I said: "Did you not narrate to me from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'A loan is equivalent to half of charity'?" He said: "Yes, it is so." He said: "Now take it."