The Califh Uthman Bin Affan endowment

More than 1400 years have passed since the great companion Othman bin Affan purchased the well of Rumah, northwest of the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina, and the well still irrigate the city’s residents with its water and waters their palms and trees.

The story of the well began when Medina began to flourish after the migration of the Prophet (peace be upon him). The Muslims found that one of the freshwaters of the city was a well located in the area of Al-Aqiq al-Asghar called the Well of Rumah. They also found that all of the city’s waters dried up except for the well of Rumah, but access to the well was not easy, as whoever wanted to drink from it had to pay its owner, which is something was not affordable for many residents of the Prophet's city at the time. The hadith of the Prophet (peace be upon him), “Who will buy the well of Rumah and dip his bucket in it alongside the buckets of the Muslims, in return for a better one in Paradise?” prompted Othman bin Affan( May Allah be pleased with him) to hasten to buy it and make it a public endowment from which everyone can drink for free.