Four merchants went out to buy merchandise by pooling all their money of one thousand dinars in one bag. As they reached a garden, they gave the bag containing the money for safekeeping to its woman caretaker and told her she should part with the money only if all the four came together for the money. They then washed their heads in the running water of the garden. After a while, one merchant asked the woman for the bag. When she refused, he called out to the other three merchants who did not hear what he asked of her. They shouted from there to give it to him. When they shouted so, she thought that they were asking her to give the bag. So, she gave it to him. The merchant ran away with the bag.
The other three took her to the Wazir who held her responsible for the lost money. But a small boy whom the lady met told her that she was supposed to give the money to them only if all the four came together. Now she should ask the Wazir to tell them to come all four together. With this idea, the lady was freed of her debt.