Hadith.3594 - It is narrated from Sharif ibn Sabiq Al-Taflisi, from Al-Fadl ibn Abi Qurrah Al-Samandi Al-Kufi, from Abu Abdullah
عليه السلام, that Commander of the Faithful
عليه السلام said:
"Allah
سبحانه وتعالى, the Almighty and Majestic, revealed to Dawud
عليه السلام: 'You are an excellent servant, except that you eat from the public treasury and do not work with your hands.'
Dawud
عليه السلام then wept.
So Allah
سبحانه وتعالى, the Almighty and Majestic, revealed to the iron:
'Soften for My servant Dawud.' (Surah Saba
34:10)
And the iron softened.
Allah
سبحانه وتعالى made the iron pliable for him, and he began to make a coat of armor each day, selling it for a thousand dirhams.
Dawud
عليه السلام made three hundred and sixty coats of armor, selling them for three hundred and sixty thousand dirhams, and he became independent of the public treasury."