Hadith #1601 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Anas said that when a bier came past Godâs messenger and he stood up he was told that it was carrying a Jew. He replied, âI stood up simply out of respect for the angels.â Nasaâi transmitted it.
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Hadith #1602 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Malik b. Hubaira said he heard Godâs messenger say, âIf any Muslim dies and three rows of Muslims pray over him it will assure him .â When Malik considered those who accompanied a bier to be few, he divided them into three rows in accordance with this tradition. Abu Dawud transmitted it. In Tirmidhiâs version he said that when Malik b. Hubaira prayed over a bier and found few people present, he divided them into three sections, then said that Godâs messenger had stated, âIf three row
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Hadith #1603 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Abu Huraira reported the Prophet as saying in the course of prayer over a dead body, âO God, Thou art its Lord, Thou didst create it, Thou didst guide it to Islam, Thou hast taken its spirit, and Thou knowest best its inner nature and outer aspect. We have come as intercessors, so forgive him.â Abu Dawud transmitted it.
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Hadith #1604 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Saâid b. al-Musayyib said he prayed behind Abu Huraira at the funeral of a boy who had never sinned and heard him say, âO God, protect him from the punishment in the grave.â Malik transmitted it.
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Hadith #1605 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Bukhari said without a complete isnad that al-Hasan (i.e. al-Hasan al-Basri (21-110. A.H )) recited Fatihat al-Kitab over an infant and said, âO God, make him for us a righteous deed which has gone before us, a recompense gone ahead, a treasure and a reward.â
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Hadith #1606 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Jabir reported the Prophet as saying, âPrayer should not be said over an infant which has not uttered a sound, neither may he inherit nor leave an inheritance.â Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah transmitted it, but the latter did not mention ânor leave an inheritanceâ.
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Hadith #1607 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Abu Masâud al-Ansari said Godâs messenger forbade that the imam should stand on anything when the people were behind him, meaning on a lower level than he was. Daraqutnl transmitted it in al-Mujtaba in Kitab al-janaâiz.
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Hadith #1608 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
âAmir b. Saâd b. Abu Waqqas told that Saâd b. Abu Waqqas said during his illness of which he died, âMake a niche for me in the side of the grave, and set up bricks over me as was done with Godâs messenger.â Muslim transmitted it.
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Hadith #1609 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Ibn âAbbas said that a piece of red stuff was put in Godâs messengerâs grave. Muslim transmitted it.
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Hadith #1610 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Sufyan at-Tammar said he saw the grave of the Prophet humped. Bukhari transmitted it.
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Hadith #1611 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Abul Hayyaj al-Asadi told that âAli said to him, âI am sending you on the same mission as Godâs messenger sent me. Do not leave an image without obliterating it, or a high grave without levelling it.â Muslim transmitted it.
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Hadith #1612 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Jabir said Godâs messenger forbade that graves should be plastered with gypsum, that any erection should be built over them, and that people should sit on them. Muslim transmitted it.
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Hadith #1613 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Abu Marthad al-Ghanawi reported Godâs messenger as saying, âDo not sit on graves, and do not pray facing them.â Muslim transmitted it.
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Hadith #1614 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Abu Huraira reported Godâs messenger as saying, âIt is better that one of you should sit on live coals which burn his clothing and come in contact with his skin than that he should sit on a grave.â Muslim transmitted it.
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Hadith #1615 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
âUrwa b. az-Zubair said there were two men in Medina, one of whom made a niche when digging a grave, the other of whom did not. The people said that the one who came first should do as he was accustomed to do, and the one who made a niche came and made one for Godâs messenger. transmitted it in Sharh as-sunna.
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Hadith #1616 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Ibn âAbbas reported Godâs messenger as saying, âThe niche in the side of the grave is for us and the excavation in the middle is for others.â Tirmidhi, Abu Dawud, Nasaâi and Ibn Majah transmitted it, and Ahmad transmitted it from Jarir b. âAbdallah.
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Hadith #1617 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Hisham b. âAmir told that the Prophet said on the day of Uhud, âDig graves, make them wide, deep and beautiful, bury two or three together in a single grave, and put first the one who knew most of the Qurâan.â Ahmad, Tirmidhi, Abu Dawud and Nasaâi transmitted it, and Ibn Majah transmitted up to âbeautifulâ.
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Hadith #1618 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
On the day of Uhud my paternal aunt brought my father to bury him in our cemetery, but Godâs messengerâs crier called out, âTake back the dead to the place where they fell.â Ahmad, Tirmidhi Abu Dawud, Nasaâi and Darimi transmitted it, the wording being Tirmidhiâs.
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Hadith #1619 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Ibn âAbbas said Godâs messenger was lowered gently into the grave head first. Shafiâi transmitted it.
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Hadith #1620 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
He told that the Prophet entered a grave during the night, and when a lamp was lit for him he faced the qibla and said, âGod have mercy on you if you were devoted to supplication with tears (The Arabic is awwah which cannot easily be translated by one word. It is variously explained as meaning one much given to sighing through fear of God, one much given to supplication from love of God, one much given to weeping from fefir, or one much given to prayer asking for Godâs mercy. Cf. Mirqat, ii,
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Hadith #1621 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Ibn âUmar told that when the dead was placed in the grave the Prophet said, âIn the name of God, by Godâs grace, and following the religion of Godâs messenger.â A version has âAnd following the sunna of Godâs messenger.â Ahmad, Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah transmitted it, and Abu Dawud transmitted the second version.
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Hadith #1622 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Jaâfar b. Muhammad told in mursal form on his fatherâs authority that the Prophet cast three handfuls of earth on the dead with both hands, that he sprinkled water on his son Ibrahimâs grave, and that he put small pebbles on it. It is transmitted in Sharh as-sunna, and Shafiâi transmitted from âhe sprinkledâ.
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Hadith #1623 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Jabir said Godâs messenger forbade that graves should be plastered with gypsum, have any writing on them, or be trodden on. Tirmidhi transmitted it.
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Hadith #1624 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
He said that the Prophetâs grave was sprinkled and that the one who sprinkled the water over his grave from a water-skin was Bilal b. Rabah. He began where the head was and sprinkled it to his feet. Baihaqi transmitted it in Dalail an-nubuwa.
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Hadith #1625 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Al-Muttalib b. Abu Wadaâa said that when âUthman b. Mazâun died, was brought out on his bier and buried, the Prophet ordered a man to bring him a stone, but he was unable to carry it; so Godâs messenger got up and, going over to it, rolled up his sleeves. Al-Muttalib remarked that the one who told him about Godâs messenger said, âI still seem to see the whiteness of the forearms of Godâs messenger when he rolled up his sleeves.â He then carried it and placed it at his head saying
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Hadith #1626 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Al-Qasim b. Muhammad told of his going to visit âAâisha and saying, âMother, show me the grave of the Prophet and his two companions.â She showed him three graves which were neither high nor low, but were spread over with soft red pebbles in an open space. Abu Dawud transmitted it.
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Hadith #1627 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Al-Baraâ b. âAzib said, âWe went out with Godâs messenger to the funeral of a man of the Ansar, but when we reached the grave the niche in the side had not yet been made, so the Prophet sat down facing the qibla and we sat down along with him.â Abu Dawud, Nasaâi and Ibn Majah transmitted it, Ibn Majah adding âquietlyâ. (Literally, as though the birds were over our heads. An explanation of the phrase is that when a bird alights on a camelâs head and begins to pick the ticks off
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Hadith #1628 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
âAâisha reported Godâs messenger as saying, âBreaking a dead manâs bone is like breaking it when he is alive.â Malik, Abu Dawud and Ibn Majah transmitted it.
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Hadith #1629 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
I was present when the daughter of Godâs messenger was being buried. He was sitting beside the grave and I saw his eyes shedding tears. He then asked, âIs there any of you who did not have sexual intercourse last night?â Abu Talha replied that he had not, so he told him to go down into her grave, and he did so. Bukhari transmitted it.
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Hadith #1630 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
âAmr b. al-âAs said to his son when he was in the throes of death, âWhen I die let no wailing woman or fire accompany me, and when you bury me scatter earth lightly over me, then stand round my grave as long as it takes to sacrifice an animal and have its flesh distributed, so that I may feel you near and know what to answer my Lordâs messengers.â( i.e. Munkar and Naklr who examine the dead in the grave) Muslim transmitted it.
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Hadith #1631 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
âAbdallah b. âUmar said he heard the Prophet say, âWhen one of you dies do not keep him long, but take him quickly to his grave, and have the opening verses of sura al-Baqara recited at his head and the concluding verses of the same sura at his feet.â Baihaqi transmitted it in Shuâab al-iman, saying the correct view is that it does not go farther back than him.
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Hadith #1632 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
We were like the companions of Jadhima (Jadhima was a legendary pre-Islamic king with his centre in al-Anbar. He had two boon- companions, âAqil and Malik, who are said to have been together for forty years. The verses are from a lament by Mutammim b. Nuwaira al-Yarbuâi over his brother Malik) for a long time, so that people said the two will never be separated. But when we separated it seemed, in spite of long association, as if Malik and I had not spent a single night together. She then sa
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Hadith #1633 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Abu Rafiâ said that Godâs messenger lowered Saâd and sprinkled water over his grave. Ibn Majah transmitted it.
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Hadith #1634 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Abu Huraira said that Godâs messenger prayed over a bier, then went to the grave and threw three handfuls of earth towards the head of the dead man. Ibn Majah transmitted it.
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Hadith #1635 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
âAmr b. Hazm told how, when the Prophet saw him leaning on a grave, he said, âDo not molest the occupant of this graveâ; or, âDo not molest it.â Ahmad transmitted it.
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Hadith #1636 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
We went in with Godâs messenger to visit Abu Saif the smith who was foster-father of Ibrahim (The Prophetâs son who died in infancy), and Godâs messenger took Ibrahim, kissed him and smelt him. We went in to visit him later when Ibrahim was giving up his soul, and tears began to fall from Godâs messengerâs eyes, whereupon âAbd ar-Rahman b. âAuf said to him, âYou too, messenger of God?â He replied, âIbn âAuf, it is compassion,â then shed more tears and said, âThe eye wee
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Hadith #1637 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Usama b. Zaid said the Prophetâs daughter sent him a message telling him that a son of hers was dying and asking him to come to them. He sent her a greeting, saying at the same time, âWhat God has taken belongs to Him, what He has given belongs to Him, and He has an appointed time for everyone, so let her show endurance and seek her reward from God.â She then sent adjuring him to come to her, and he got up to go accompanied by Saâd b. âUbada, Muâadh b. Jabal, Ubayy b. Kaâb, Zaid b.
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Hadith #1638 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
âAbdallah b. âUmar said that when Saâd b. âUbada complained of a trouble, the Prophet came to visit him accompanied by âAbd ar-Rahman b. âAuf, Saâd b. Abu Waqqas and âAbdallah b. Masâud. On entering and finding him in a bad way (Or, in a faint) he suggested that his end was near, but was assured that that was not so. The Prophet wept, and when the people saw him weeping they wept also. He then said, âListen; God does not punish for the tears the eye sheds or the grief the hea
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Hadith #1639 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
âAbdallah b. Masâud reported Godâs messenger as saying, âHe who beats the cheeks, tears the front of the garments, and cries out as people did in pre-Islamic times, does not belong to us.â (Bukhari and Muslim.)
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Hadith #1640 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Abu Burda said that Abu Musa al-Ashâari fainted and his wife Umm âAbdallah began to shout with a piercing cry. He then came round, and asking her if she was quite ignorant, he told her that Godâs messenger had said, âI have no connection with one who shaves, shouts and tears his clothing.â (Bukharl and Muslim, the wording being Muslimâs.)
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Hadith #1641 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
boasting of high rank, reviling other peopleâs genealogies, seeking rain by the stars, and wailing.â And he said, âIf the wailing-woman does not repent before she dies, she will be made to stand on the day of resurrection wearing a garment of pitch and a chemise of mange.â Muslim transmitted it.
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Hadith #1642 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Anas told that when the Prophet came upon a woman weeping at a grave he said, âFear God and show endurance.â She, not recognising him, replied, âGo away, for you have not been afflicted as I have.â She was told that he was the Prophet, so she went to his door, and finding no doorkeepers there she said, âI did not recognise you.â He replied, âEndurance is shown only at the first blow.â (Bukharl and Muslim.)
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Hadith #1643 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Abu Huraira reported Godâs messenger as saying, âNo Muslim will suffer the death of three sons and go to hell, except to expiate the oath.â(Cf. Qurâan, xix, 71, which says everyone shall go down to it, and that this is a decree from God which must be accomplished. The meaning of the tradition is said to be that such people will go for a very brief time which will be enough to make this decree no longer applicable to them. The decree is treated as equivalent to an oath) (Bukharl and Musli
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Hadith #1644 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
He reported Godâs messenger as saying to some women of the Ansar, âNone of you will lose three children by death and seek a reward from God without entering paradise.â One of them asked, âOr two, messenger of God?â He replied, âOr two.â Muslim transmitted it. Bukharl and Muslim have a version which says, âthree who were not old enough to sin.â
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Hadith #1645 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
He reported Godâs messenger as declaring that God says, âWhen I take away from my believing servant his favourite friend among the people of this world and he seeks his reward from me, he will have no other reward from me but paradise.â Bukhari transmitted it.
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Hadith #1646 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Abd Saâid al-Khudri said that Godâs messenger cursed the wailing-woman and the woman who listens to her. Abu Dawud transmitted it.
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Hadith #1647 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Saâd b. Abu Waqqas reported Godâs messenger as saying, âIt is a fine thing when a believer praises and thanks God if good comes to him, and praises God and shows endurance if smitten by affliction. â The believer is rewarded for everything, even for the morsel he raises to his wifeâs mouth.â(The idea of the tradition is that by virtue of his faith the believer receives a reward for all his actions, none being too insignificant) Baihaqi transmitted it in Shuâab al-iman.
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Hadith #1648 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Anas reported Godâs messenger as saying, âEvery believer has two gates, one by which deeds ascend and one by which his provision comes down, and when he dies they weep for him.â That agrees with Godâs words, âNeither the heaven nor the earth wept for them.â(Qurâan xliv, 29) Tirmidhi transmitted it.
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Hadith #1649 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Ibn âAbbas reported Godâs messenger as saying, âIf any member of my people has two children who die before him, God will cause him to enter paradise on their account.â âAâisha asked, âDoes it apply to a member of your people who has one child who dies before him?â He replied, âIt does, you who have been helped by God to ask this.â She then asked, âWhat about a member of your people who has no children who die before him?â He replied, âI am the one who dies before my peo
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Hadith #1650 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
When a manâs child dies God most high asks His angels whether they have taken His servantâs child and they reply that they have. He then asks whether they have taken the fruit of his heart (This is said by some to mean either children or grandchildren, and a basis for that meaning is found in Qurâan, ii, 155, where the plural ath-thamarat is interpreted that way), and when they reply that they have, He asks what His servant said. On their replying that he praised God and said, âWe belong
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Hadith #1651 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
âAbdallah b. Masâud reported Godâs messenger as saying, âIf anyone comforts one who has been afflicted he will have a reward equivalent to his.â Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah transmitted it, Tirmidhi saying this is a gharib tradition which was known to him as traced back to the Prophet only among the traditions of âAli b. âAsim the transmitter. He added that some transmitted it with this isnad from Muhammad b. Suqa in mauquf form.
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Hadith #1652 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Abu Barza reported Godâs messenger as saying, âHe who comforts a bereaved woman will be clothed with a striped garment in paradise.â Tirmidhi transmitted it, saying this is a gharib tradition.
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Hadith #1653 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
âAbdallah b. Jaâfar told that when the news of Jaâfarâs death came the Prophet said, âPrepare food for Jaâfarâs family, for they have heard something which takes up their whole attention.â Tirmidhi, Abu Dawud and Ibn Majah transmitted it.
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Hadith #1654 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Al-Mughira b. Shuâba said he heard Godâs messenger say, âIf people wail for anyone he will be punished for it on the day of resurrection.â (Bukharl and Muslim.)
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Hadith #1655 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
âAmra daughter of âAbd ar-Rahman said that when âAâisha was told that âAbdallah b. âUmar said the dead was punished because of the weeping of the living for him, she heard her say, âGod forgive Abu âAbd ar-Rahman ! He has not lied, but he has forgotten, or has made a mistake. What happened was just that Godâs messenger came upon some people weeping for a Jewess and said, âThey are weeping for her, and she is being punished in her grave.â â (Bukharl and Muslim.)
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Hadith #1656 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
A daughter of âUthman b. âAffan died in Mecca and we went to attend her funeral. Ibn âUmar and Ibn âAbbas were present and I was sitting between them. âAbdallah b. âUmar told âAmr b. âUthman who was opposite him to make the people stop weeping, for Godâs messenger had said that the dead is punished because of his peopleâs weeping for him. Ibn âAbbas then said that âUmar used to say something of that nature, and told of an occasion when he had gone from Mecca with âUmar
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Hadith #1657 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
âAâisha said that when the Prophet was told that Ibn Haritha, Jaâfar and Ibn Rawaha (They were Zaid b. Haritha, Jaâfar Abu Talib, and âAbdallah b. Rawaha who were killed at Muâta in 7 A.H) had been killed, he sat down showing signs of grief, while she was looking at him through the saâir, i.e. the slit, of the door. A man came to him and mentioned that Jaâfarâs women were weeping, and on being told to tell them to stop he went away. He came a second time saying they had not obe
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Hadith #1658 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Umm Salama told that when Abu Salama died she said he had been a stranger in a strange land and that she would weep for him in a manner which would be talked of. She had made preparations for weeping and a woman who meant to assist her was on her way when she was met by Godâs messenger who said, âDo you intend to bring the devil into a house from which God has twice driven him out?â(Abu Salama had emigrated both to Abyssinia and to Medina and this may be the reference here; or it may be ex
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Hadith #1659 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
An-Nuâman b. Bashir said that when âAbdallah b. Rawaha fainted his sister âAmra began to weep and shout, âAlas for the mountain! (The word which basically means a mountain is also used for a chief. In the next tradition from Abu Musa two expressions are used, one being the same as here and the other using a normal word for a chief. I have therefore kept the flavour of the original by retaining the word mountain) Alas for such and such! Alas for such and such !â eulogising him. When he
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Hadith #1660 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Abu Musa said he heard Godâs messenger say, âIf anyone dies and the mourner gets up and says, âAlas for the mountain! Alas for the chief!â and such like, God will put two angels in charge of him who will beat him on the breast and ask him whether he was like that.â Tirmidhi transmitted it, saying this is a gharib hasan tradition.
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Hadith #1661 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Abu Huraira said that a member of the family of Godâs messenger died and that the women gathered and wept for him. âUmar then arose and forbade and repulsed them, but Godâs messenger said, âLet them alone, âUmar, for the eye is tearful, the heart is afflicted, and the matter has happened recently.â Ahmad and Nasaâi transmitted it.
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Hadith #1662 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Ibn âAbbas said that when Godâs messengerâs daughter Zainab died and the women wept, âUmar began to strike them with his whip, but Godâs messenger pushed him back saying, âGently, âUmar.â He then said, âBeware of the devilâs clamour,â and added, âWhatever comes from the eye and from the heart is from God who is great and glorious and pertains to compassion, but what comes from the hand and from the tongue is of the devil.â Ahmad transmitted it.
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Hadith #1663 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Bukhari said without a full isnad that when al-Hasan b. âAli died, his wife put a tent over his grave for a year; then when she removed it she heard one shouting and saying, âHave they found what they lost?â and another replied, âNo, they have given up hope and gone away.â
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Hadith #1664 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
âImran b. Husain and Abu Barza said that when they went out with Godâs messenger to a funeral he saw some people who had removed their cloaks and were walking in shirts, and said, âDo you adhere to the practice of pre-Islamic times?â or, âDo you copy what was done in pre-Islamic times ? I feel inclined to invoke a curse on you that you should return metamorphosed.â Then they took their cloaks and did not do that again. Ibn Majah transmitted it.
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Hadith #1665 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Ibn âUmar said Godâs messenger forbade the following of a bier which was accompanied by a woman wailing shrilly. Ahmad and Ibn Majah transmitted it.
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Hadith #1666 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Abu Huraira said that a man who told him a son of his had died and that he was grieved asked him if he had heard anything from his friend which would comfort them regarding their dead. He replied that he had, for he had heard him say, âTheir young ones roam freely in paradise. One of them meets his father, seizes the end of his garment and does not leave him until he brings him into paradise.â Muslim and Ahmad transmitted it, the wording being the latterâs.
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Hadith #1667 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Abu Saâid told a woman coming to Godâs messenger and saying, âMessenger of God, the men have a monopoly of what you say, so appoint us a day on which we may come to you to teach us some of what God has taught you.â He told them to gather on such and such a day in such and such a place, and when they did so he came to them and taught them some of what God had taught him. Then he said, âNo woman among you will be predeceased by three of her children without that being a curtain from hell
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Hadith #1668 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Muâadh b. Jabal reported Godâs messenger as saying, âNo pair of Muslims will lose three by death without God bringing them into paradise by His great mercy.â He was asked if that applied if they lost two, and said it did. He was also asked if it applied if they lost one, and said it did. Then he said, âBy Him in whose hand my soul is, the abortion draws his mother to paradise by his umbilical cord when she seeks her reward for him from God.â Ahmad transmitted it, and Ibn Majah transm
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Hadith #1669 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
âAbdallah b. Masâud reported Godâs messenger as saying, âIf anyone is predeceased by three of his children who did not grow old enough to sin, they will be a strong protection for him from hell.â When Abu Dharr said he had been predeceased by two, he told him that the same applied. Ubayy b. Kaâb Abu Mundhir, the chief of the Qurâan readers, said he had been predeceased by one, and he told him the same applied. Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah transmitted it, Tirmidhi saying that this is a gh
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Hadith #1670 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Qurra al-Muzani said that the Prophet asked a man who used to come to him along with a son of his whether he loved his son, and the man replied, âMessenger of God, may God love you as I love him.â The Prophet missed him, and on enquiring what had happened to so and soâs son he was told that he had died. Thereupon he said, âWould you not like to find him waiting for you no matter to which gate of paradise you came?â A man asked whether that applied particularly to him, or to all of them
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Hadith #1671 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
âAli reported Godâs messenger as saying, âThe abortion will dispute with his Lord when He causes his parents to enter hell, and will receive the reply, âYou abortion who are disputing with your Lord, bring your parents into paradise.â He will then draw them with his umbilical cord till he brings them into paradise.â Ibn Majah transmitted it.
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Hadith #1672 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Abu Umama reported the Prophet as stating that God who is blessed and exalted says, âSon of Adam, if you show endurance and seek your reward from me in the first affliction, I shall be pleased with no lesser reward than paradise for you.â Ibn Majah transmitted it.
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Hadith #1673 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Al-Husain b. âAli reported the Prophet as saying, âIf any Muslim man or woman suffers a calamity and keeps it in his memory, even if it happened a long time ago, saying each time it is remembered, âWe belong to God and to Him do we return,â God who is blessed and exalted will give a fresh reward each time it is said, equivalent to the reward when it happened.â Ahmad and Baihaqi, in Shuâab al-lman, transmitted it.
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Hadith #1674 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Abu Huraira reported Godâs messenger as saying, âWhen the thong of someoneâs sandal breaks he should say, âWe belong to God and to Him do we return,â for it is one of the calamities.â
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Hadith #1675 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Umm ad-Dardaâ said she heard Abud Dardaâ say he heard Abul Qasim (i.e the Prophet) say that God who is blessed and exalted said, âI am sending after your time, Jesus, a people who will praise God when what they like happens to them, and seek their reward from God and show endurance when what they dislike afflicts them, though they do not possess forbearance and intelligence.â He asked, âMy Lord, how can this be when they do not possess forbearance or intelligence?â God replied, âI
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Hadith #1676 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Buraida reported Godâs messenger as saying, âI forbade you to visit graves, but you may now visit them; I forbade you to eat the flesh of sacrificial animals after three days, but you may now keep it as long as you feel inclined; and I forbade you nabidh except in a water-skin, so you may drink it from all kinds of water-skins, but you must not drink anything intoxicating.â Muslim transmitted it.
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Hadith #1677 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Abu Huraira said that the Prophet visited his motherâs grave and wept and caused those around him to weep. He then said, âI asked my Lordâs permission to pray for forgiveness for her, but I was not allowed; I then asked His permission to visit her grave and I was allowed; so visit graves, for they make one mindful of death.â Muslim transmitted it.
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Hadith #1678 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Buraida said that Godâs messenger used to teach them to say when they went out to the cemeteries, âPeace be upon you, inhabitants of the dwellings who are of the number of the believers and the Muslims. If God will, we shall join you. We ask God to grant us and you wellbeing.â Muslim transmitted it.
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Hadith #1679 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Ibn âAbbas said that when Godâs messenger passed by some graves in Medina he turned his face towards them and said, âPeace be upon you, inhabitants of the graves. God forgive us and you. You have gone before us and we are coming after.â Tirmidhi transmitted it saying this is a hasan gharib tradition.
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Hadith #1680 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
âAâisha said that whenever it was her turn for Godâs messenger to spend the night with her he would go out towards the end of the night to al-Baqiâ and say, âPeace be upon you, household of a people who are believers. What you were being promised will come to you tomorrow, you receiving it after some delay, and if God will we shall join you. O God, grant forgiveness to the inhabitants of Baqiâ al- Gharqad.â (This is the full name of the cemetery at Medina. Baqiâ properly means a
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Hadith #1681 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
She said she asked Godâs messenger what she should say, i.e. when visiting graves, and he told her to say, âPeace be upon the inhabitants of the abodes, believers and Muslims, and God show mercy to those of us who go before and those who go later. If God will we shall join you.â Muslim transmitted it.
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Hadith #1682 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Muhammad b. an-Nuâman who traced the tradition back to the Prophet reported him as saying, âIf anyone visits the grave of his parents, or of one of them, every Friday he will be granted forgiveness and it will be recorded as filial piety.â Baihaqi transmitted it in mursal form in Shuâab al-iman.
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Hadith #1683 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Ibn Masâud reported Godâs messenger as saying, âI forbade you to visit graves, but you may now visit them, for they produce abstinence in this world and act as a reminder of the next.â Ibn Majah transmitted it.
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Hadith #1684 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Abu Huraira said Godâs messenger cursed women who visited graves. Ahmad, Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah transmitted it, Tirmidhi saying this is a hasan sahih tradition. He added that some learned men consider this was before the Prophet gave licence to visit graves, and when he gave it both men and women were included. But some hold that he disapproved of women visiting graves because of the small amount of self-control they possess and their tendency to be greatly upset. The quotation from him ends h
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Hadith #1685 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
I used to enter my house in which Godâs messenger was and put off my garment, saying that only my husband and my father were there; but when âUmar was buried along with them, I swear by God that I did not enter it without having my clothes wrapped round me owing to modesty regarding âUmar. (The tradition refers to the time after the death of the Prophet and Abu Bakr who were buried in âAâishaâs house. When âUmar died he was buried beside them. As âAâisha was not related to him
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Hadith #1686 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Ibn âAbbas reported Godâs messenger as saying when he sent Muâadh to the Yemen, âYou will come to folk who are people of a book, so invite them to testify that there is no god but God and that Muhammad is Godâs messenger. If they obey that, tell them God has made obligatory for them five times of prayer every twenty-four hours. If they obey that, tell them God has made obligatory for them sadaqa to be taken from their rich and handed over to their poor. If they obey that, avoid taking
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Hadith #1687 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Abu Huraira reported Godâs messenger as saying, âIf any owner of gold or silver does not pay what is due on it, when the day of resurrection comes plates of fire will be beaten out for him, they will be heated in the fire of jahannam, and his side, forehead and back will be cauterised with them. Every time they are put back in the fire they will be returned to him during a day whose extent will be fifty thousand years, until judgment is pronounced among mankind and he sees whether his path i
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Hadith #1688 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
He reported God s messenger as saying, âIf God gives anyone property and he does not pay the zakat on it, his property will be made to appear to him on the day of resurrection as a large bald snake with black spots over its eyes. It will be put round his neck on the day of resurrection, then seize his lihzamatani, i.e. his jaws, then say, âI am your property; I am your treasureâ.â He then recited, âLet not those who are niggardly thinkâ¦â* Bukhari transmitted it. * Quran 3:180
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Hadith #1689 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Abu Dharr reported the Prophet as saying, âIf any man has camels, cattle, or sheep on which he does not pay what is due, they will be produced as large and fat as can be on the day of resurrection and will trample him with their hoofs and gore him with their horns. As often as the last of them pass him the first of them will be brought back to him until judgment is pronounced among mankind.â (Bukhari and Muslim.)
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Hadith #1690 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Jarir b. âAbdallah reported Godâs messenger as saying, âWhen the collector of sadaqa comes to you see that he is pleased with you when he leaves you.â Muslim transmitted it.
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Hadith #1691 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
âAbdallah b. Abu Aufa told that the Prophet said when people brought him their sadaqa, âO God, bless the family of so and so.â He told how, when his father brought him his sadaqa, he said, âO God, bless the family of Abu Aufa.â (Bukhari and Muslim.) A version says that when a man brought the Prophet his sadaqa he said, âO God, bless him.â
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Hadith #1692 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Abu Huraira told how when Godâs messenger sent âUmar to collect sadaqa people said that Ibn Jamil, Khalid b. al-Walid and al-âAbbas refused. So Godâs messenger said, âIbn Jamil is not objecting, but he was poor and God and His messenger enriched him. * As for Khalid, you are wronging him, for he has kept back his coats of mail and weapons to use them in Godâs path. As for al-âAbbas, I shall be responsible for it and an equal amount along with it.â Then he said, âDid you not kno
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Hadith #1693 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
I employ men of your number to deal with certain matters which God has entrusted to me, yet one of them comes and says, âThis is for you and this is a present which was given to me.â Why did he not sit in his fatherâs or his motherâs house and see whether it would be given to him or not? By Him in whose hand my soul is, whoever takes any of it will inevitably bring it on the day of resurrection carrying it on his neck, be it a camel which rumbles, an ox which bellows, or a sheep which bl
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Hadith #1694 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
âAdi b. âAmira reported Godâs messenger as saying, âIf I appoint any of you to deal with a matter and he conceals from me a needle and what is above that, it is dishonesty, and he will bring it on the day of resurrection.â * Muslim transmitted it. * Quran 3:161.
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Hadith #1695 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Ibn âAbbas told how, when this verse was revealed, âAnd those who hoard gold and silverâ¦â* the Muslims were grieved about it and âUmar told them he would dispel their care. He therefore went and told Godâs Prophet that his companions were grieved by this verse, and received the reply, âGod has made the zakat obligatory simply to purify your remaining property, and He made inheritances obligatory (mentioning a word)** that they might come to those who survive you.â âUmar then sa
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Hadith #1696 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Jabir b. âAtik reported Godâs messenger as saying, âRiders who are rendered objects of dislike to you* will come to you, but you must welcome them when they come to you and give them a free hand regarding what they desire. If they are just they will receive credit for it, but if they are unjust they will be held responsible. Please them, for the perfection of your zakat consists in their good pleasure, and let them ask a blessing for you.â Abu Dawud transmitted it. * These are collectors
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Hadith #1697 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Jarir b. âAbdallah told of some people, meaning nomadic Arabs, who came to Godâs messenger and said, âCollectors of sadaqa come to us and act unjustly.â He told them to please the collectors who came to them, and when they asked if they must do so even if they wronged them, he replied, âPlease those who collect sadaqa from you, even if you are wronged.â Abu Dawud transmitted it.
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Hadith #1698 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Bashir b. al-Khasasiya said they told how the collectors of sadaqa went over the score and asked whether they might conceal their property to the extent to which they went over the score, but told them that they must not. Abu Dawud transmitted it.
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Hadith #1699 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Rafiâ b. Khadij reported Godâs messenger as saying, âThe official who collects sadaqa in a just manner is like him who fights in Godâs path till he returns home.â Abu Dawud and Tirmidhi transmitted it.
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Hadith #1700 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
âAmr b. Shuâaib on his fatherâs authority said his grandfather reported the Prophet as saying, âThere is to be no collecting of sadaqa from a distance, nor must people who own property remove it far away,* for their sadaqat are to be received only in their dwellings.â Abu Dawud transmitted it. * The point is that the collector of zakat must not make people bring their animals a long distance to him, and they must not remove their animals to a distance when he is coming to collect zakat
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Hadith #1701 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Ibn âUmar reported Godâs messenger as saying, âHe who acquires property is not liable for zakat on it till a year passes.â Tirmidhi transmitted it, mentioning that a number traced the tradition no farther back than Ibn âUmar.
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Hadith #1702 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Ali said that al-âAbbas asked Godâs messenger about paying his sadaqa in advance before it became due, and he gave him permission to do that. Abu Dawud, Tirmidhi, Ibn Majah and Darimi transmitted it.
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Hadith #1703 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
âAmr b. Shuâaib on his fatherâs authority said that his grandfather told of the Prophet addressing the people and saying, âIf anyone is guardian of an orphan who owns property, he must trade with it and not leave it till the sadaqa consumes it.â Tirmidhi transmitted it, adding that its isnad has been criticised because al-Muthanna b. as- Sabbah was weak.
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Hadith #1704 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Abu Huraira said that when Abu Bakr was made the Prophetâs successor after his death and infidelity arose among certain Arabs, âUmar b. al-Khattab asked Abu Bakr how he could fight with the people when Godâs messenger had said, âI have been commanded to fight with the people till they say there is no god but God, so whoever says so has protected his property and his person from me except for what is due from him, and his reckoning is left to God.â Abu Bakr replied, âI swear by God th
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Hadith #1705 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
He reported Godâs messenger as saying, âThe treasure of one of you on the day of resurrection will be a large bald snake from which he will flee, but it will keep following after him till he gives it his fingers to eat.â Ahmad transmitted it.
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Hadith #1706 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Ibn Masâud reported the Prophet as saying, âNo man will fail to pay the zakat on his property without God putting a large snake on his neck on the day of resurrection.â He then recited to them the justification of it from God s Book, âLet not those who are niggardly with what God has given them from His bounty supposeâ¦â* Tirmidhi, Nasaâi and Ibn Majah transmitted it. * Quran 3:180.
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Hadith #1707 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
âAâisha said she heard Godâs messenger say, âzakat is never mingled with any property without destroying it.â Shafiâi, Bukhari in his Taârikh, and al-Humaidi transmitted it, al-Humaidl adding He said, âSadaqa will have been incumbent on you and you will not pay it, so what is forbidden will destroy what is lawful.â Those who hold that the zakat is connected with the property itself have used this as an argument. It is given thus in al-Muntaqa. Baihaqi transmitted in Shuâab al
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Hadith #1708 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Abu Saâid al-Khudri reported Godâs messenger as saying, âNo sadaqa is payable on less than five camel-loads (wasq) of dates, on less than five ounces of silver, and on less than five camels.â (Bukhari and Muslim.)
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Hadith #1709 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Abu Huraira reported Godâs messenger as saying, âNo sadaqa is due from a Muslim on his slave or his horse.â In a version he said, âThere is no sadaqa on his slave except that given at the breaking of the fast.â (Bukhari and Muslim.)
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Hadith #1710 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful. This is the obligatory sadaqa which Godâs messenger imposed on the Muslims which God commanded him to impose. Those Muslims who are asked for the proper amount must give it, but those who are asked for more than that must not give it. For twenty-four camels or less, a sheep is to be given for every five. When they reach twenty-five to thirty-five, a she-camel in her second year is to be given. When they reach thirty-six to forty-five, a she-
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Hadith #1711 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
âAbdallah b. âUmar reported the Prophet as saying, âA tenth is payable on what is watered by rain or wells, or from underground moisture, and a twentieth on what is watered by draught camels.â Bukhari transmitted it.
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Hadith #1712 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Abu Huraira reported Godâs messenger as saying, âNo retaliation is payable for a wound caused by a dumb animal, or for an accident in a well or a mine, but a fifth is payable on buried treasure.â * (Bukhari and Muslim.) * The word used (rikaz) is applied to treasure buried by people in pre-Islamic times; but the word may also mean metal in mines.
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Hadith #1713 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
âAli reported Godâs messenger as saying, âI have given exemption regarding horses and slaves; with regard to coins, however, you must pay a dirham for every forty, but nothing is payable on a hundred and ninety. When the total reaches two hundred, five dirhams are payable.â Tirmidhi and Abu Dawud transmitted it. In a version by Abu Dawud from al-Harith al-Aâwar from âAli, from the Prophet, as Zuhair thought,* he said, âPay a fortieth.â A dirham is payable on every forty, but you
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Hadith #1714 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Muâadh said that when the Prophet sent him to the Yemen he ordered him to take a male or female calf of a year old for every thirty cattle and a cow in its third year for every forty. Abu Dawud, Tirmidhi, Nasaâi and Darimi transmitted it.
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Hadith #1715 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Anas reported Godâs messenger as saying, âHe who collects more sadaqa than is due is like him who refuses to pay it.â * Abu Dawud and Tirmidhi transmitted it. * Meaning that the sin committed by both is similar in its seriousness.
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Hadith #1716 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Abu Saâid al-Khudri reported the Prophet as saying, âThere is no sadaqa payable on grain or dates till they reach five camel-loads.â Nasaâi transmitted it.
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Hadith #1717 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Musa b. Talha said he had the letter of Muâadh b. Jabal from the Prophet to the effect that he ordered him to collect sadaqa only on wheat, barley, raisins and dates. It is in mursal form and is transmitted in Sharh as-sunna.
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Hadith #1718 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
âAttab b. Usaid reported the Prophet as saying regarding the zakat on vines, âThey are to be estimated as palm-trees are, then the zakat is to be paid in raisins as the zakat on palm-trees is paid in dried dates.â Tirmidhi and Abu Dawud transmitted it.
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Hadith #1719 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Sahl b. Abu Hathma related that Godâs messenger used to say, âWhen you estimate take them leaving a third, and if you do not leave a third leave a quarter.â * Tirmidhi, Abu Dawud and Nasaâi transmitted it. * This is interpreted by some as meaning that a third or a quarter was not to be reckoned when assessing the tax.
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Hadith #1720 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
âAâisha said the Prophet used to send âAbdallah b. Rawaha to Jews, and he would make an estimate of the palm trees when the fruit was in good condition before any of it was eaten. Abu Dawud transmitted it.
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Hadith #1721 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Ibn âUmar reported Godâs messenger as saying regarding honey, âA skin is payable on every ten.â Tirmidhi transmitted it, saying its isnad is criticised and that little on this subject is soundly reported from the Prophet.
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Hadith #1722 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Zainab the wife of âAbdallah said Godâs messenger addressed them saying, âYou women should give alms even if it consists of your jewellery, * for you will be the majority of the inhabitants of jahannam on the day of resurrection.â Tirmidhi transmitted it. * There is a difference of opinion as to whether this means simply giving some of their jewellery, or whether it means that zakat must be paid on jewellery which they possess.
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Hadith #1723 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
âAmr b. Shuâaib on his fatherâs authority said that his grandfather told of two women wearing gold bangles on their wrists coming to Godâs messenger, who asked them whether they paid zakat on them. On their replying that they did not, he asked them whether they wanted God to put two bangles of fire on them, and when they replied that they did not, he told them to pay the zakat due on them. Tirmidhi transmitted it, saying something similar to this tradition has been transmitted by al-Muth
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Hadith #1724 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Umm Salama said she was wearing gold ornaments and asked Godâs messenger whether that was a treasure,* to which he replied, âWhatever reaches a quantity on which zakat is payable is not a treasure when the zakat is paid.â Malik and Abu Dawud transmitted it. * The word kanz which means a treasure is used as a technical term for property liable to zakat on which the zakat is not paid.
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Hadith #1725 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Samura b. Jundub said Godâs messenger used to order them to deduct the sadaqa from what they prepared for trade. Abu Dawud transmitted it.
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Hadith #1726 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Rabiâa b. âAbd ar-Rahman on more than one personâs authority said, âGodâs messenger assigned as a fief to Bilal b. al-Harith al-Muzani the mines of al-Qabaliya which is in the neighbourhood of al-Furâ,* and only zakat is levied on those mines up to the present day.â Abu Dawud transmitted it. * Yaqut, Muâjam, ii, 471, says it is a village in the neighbourhood of ar-Rabadha, eight stages from Medina on the way to Mecca; some say four daysâ journey.
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Hadith #1727 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
âAli reported the Prophet as saying, âThere is no sadaqa on green herbs, palm-trees given in usufruct for a year, less than five camel-loads, working animals, or al-jabha.â As-Saqr said al-jabha* consists of horses, mules and slaves. Daraqutni transmitted it. * Applied usually to horses, meaning the best type.
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Hadith #1728 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Tawus told that a waqs of cattle was brought to Muâadh b. Jabal and he said the Prophet did not command him to pay anything on them. Daraqutni and Shafiâ transmitted it, the latter saying that a waqs is a number less than that on which sadaqa is payable. * * The word waqs or waqas is applied to odd numbers of animals (usually cattle) between one limit of assessment and the next.
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Hadith #1729 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Ibn âUmar said Godâs messenger prescribed as the zakat payable by slave and freeman, male and female, young and old among the Muslims on breaking the fast of Ramadan a saâ* of dried dates or a saâ of barley, and gave command that this should be paid before the people went out to prayer. (Bukhari and Muslim.) * The Hijazi saâ is described as a measure equivalent to four mudds, the mudd being the amount a man with average size hands can hold with both hands extended.
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Hadith #1730 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Abu Saâid al-Khudrl said, âWe used to bring forth as the zakat on breaking the fast of Ramadan a saâ of grain, or of barley, or of dried dates, or of cheese, or of raisins.â (Bukhari and Muslim.)
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Hadith #1731 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Ibn âAbbas said, âAt the end of Ramadan bring forth the sadaqa relating to your fast. Godâs messenger prescribed this sadaqa as a saâ of dried dates or barley, or half a saâ of wheat payable by every freeÂ¬man or slave, male or female, young or old.â Abu Dawud and Nasaâi transmitted it.
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Hadith #1732 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
He said that Godâs messenger prescribed the zakat relating to the breaking of the fast as a purification of the fasting from empty and obscene talk and as food for the poor. Abu Dawud transmitted it.
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Hadith #1733 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
âAmr b. Shuâaib on his fatherâs authority said his grandfather told that the Prophet sent someone to announce in the ravines of Mecca, âThe sadaqa relating to the breaking of the fast is incumbent on every Muslim, male or female, freeman or slave, young or old, consisting of two mudds of wheat or such like, or a saâ of grain.â Tirmidhi transmitted it.
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Hadith #1734 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
âAbdallah b. Thaâlaba, or Thaâlaba b. âAbdallah b. Abu Suâair* reported on his fatherâs authority that Godâs messenger said, âA saâ of wheat** is to be taken from every two, young or old, freeman or slave, male or female. Those of you who are rich will be purified by God and those of you who are poor will have more than they gave returned by Him to them.â Abu Dawud transmitted it. * Abu Dawud, zakat, 21 gives the name as above, but others often give b. Suâair. Ibn âAbd al
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Hadith #1735 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Anas told that the Prophet came upon a date on the road and said, âWere it not that I fear it may be part of the sadaqa I would eat it.â (Bukhari and Muslim.)
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Hadith #1736 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Abu Huraira told that al-Hasan b. âAll took one of the dates of the sadaqa and put it in his mouth, whereupon the Prophet said, âLeave it alone, leave it alone,â in order that he might throw it away. He then said, âDo you not know that we* do not eat the sadaqa?â (Bukhari and Muslim.) * The pronoun includes the Prophet and his family, al Hasan being his grandson. The idea is more definitely expressed in âAbd al-Muttalibâs tradition.
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Hadith #1737 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
âAbd al-Muttalib b. Rabiâa reported Godâs messenger as saying, âThese sadaqat are only peopleâs impurities,* and they are not lawful for Muhammad or Muhammadâs family.â Muslim transmitted it. * i.e. an atonement for their sins.
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Hadith #1738 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Abu Huraira said that when Godâs messenger was brought food he asked whether it was a present or sadaqa, and if he was informed that it was sadaqa he told his companions to eat, but did not eat himself; if however he was informed that it was a present he put in his hand and ate along with them. (Bukhari and Muslim.)
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Hadith #1739 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
âAâisha said that three sunnas concerned Barira.* One was that she became free and was given her choice regarding her husband. Godâs messenger said, âThe right of inheritance from an emancipated slave belongs to the one who set him free.â* Godâs messenger once came in when the pot was boiling with meat in it, and he was presented with some of the bread and condiments which were in the house. He asked, âDid I not see a pot containing meat?â and was told, âYes, but that is meat w
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Hadith #1740 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
She said that Godâs messenger would accept a present and give something in return for it. Bukhari transmitted it.
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Hadith #1741 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Abu Huraira reported Godâs messenger as saying, âIf I were invited to eat a trotter I would accept the invitation, and if I were presented with a fore-leg I would accept it.â Bukhari transmitted it.
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Hadith #1742 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
He reported Godâs messenger as saying, âThe poor man (miskin) is not the one who goes round to people and is dismissed with one or two morsels, and one or two dates, but is he who does not get enough to satisfy him, is not taken notice of so that alms may be given him, yet does not get up and beg from people.â (Bukhari and Muslim.)
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Hadith #1743 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Abu Rafiâ said Godâs messenger sent a man of the B. Makhzum to collect sadaqa and he asked him to accompany him so that he might get some of it; but he refused to do so till he went to Godâs messenger and asked him. He went to the Prophet and asked him, and he said, âThe sadaqa is not lawful for us, and the clients of a people are treated as being of their number.â * Tirmidhi, Abu Dawud and Nasaâi transmitted it. * Abu Rafiâ had been a slave of the Prophet by whom he was set free.
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Hadith #1744 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
âAbdallah b. âAmr reported Godâs messenger as saying, âSadaqa may not be given to a rich man, or to one who has strength and is sound in limb.â Tirmidhi, Abu Dawud and Darimi transmitted it, and Ahmad, Nasaâi and Ibn Majah transmitted it from Abu Huraira.
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Hadith #1745 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
âUbaidallah b. âAdi b. al-Khiyar said two men informed him that they had come to the Prophet when he was at the Farewell Pilgrimage while he was dividing the sadaqa and asked him for some of it. He looked them up and down, and seeing that they were robust, he said, âIf you wish I shall give you something, but there is no share in it for a rich man or for one who is strong and able to earn a living.â Abu Dawud and Nasaâi transmitted it.
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Hadith #1746 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
one who fights in Godâs path, or one who collects it, or a debtor, a man who buys it with his money, or a man who has a poor neighbour a no has been given sadaqa and gives a present to the rich man.â Malik and Abu Dawud transmitted it. A version by Abu Dawud from Abu Saâid has ââor a traveller.â
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Hadith #1747 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Ziyad b. al-Harith as-Sudaâi said he came to the Prophet and swore allegiance to him, and after telling a long story he said that a man came to him and asked him to give him some of the sadaqa. Godâs messenger then said to him, ââGod is not pleased with a prophetâs or anyone elseâs decision about sadaqat till He has given a decision about them Himself. He has divided those entitled to them into eight categories,* so if you come within those categories I shall give you something.â A
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Hadith #1748 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Zaid b. Aslam said that âUmar b. al-Khattab drank some milk which pleased him and asked the man who gave him the drink where that milk had come from. He informed him that he had gone down to a watering-place which he named and found there some camels which had been given as sadaqa being watered. Saying that the people had drawn off some of their milk, he added, âI put it in this milk-skin of mine, and this is it.â âUmar thereupon put his hand in his mouth and made himself vomit. Malik an
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Hadith #1749 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
a man who has become a guarantor for a payment, to whom begging is allowed till he gets it, after which he must stop begging; a man whose property has been destroyed by a calamity which has smitten him, to whom begging is allowed till he gets what will support life (or he said, what will provide a reasonable subsistence); and a man who has been smitten by poverty, the genuineness of which is confirmed by three intelligent members of his people, to whom begging is allowed till he gets what will s
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Hadith #1750 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Abu Huraira reported Godâs messenger as saying, âHe who begs the property of others to increase his own is asking only for live coals,* so let him ask little or much.â Muslim transmitted it. * A reference incurring some of the punishment of hell.
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Hadith #1751 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
âAbdallah b. âUmar reported Godâs messenger as saying, âWhen a man is always begging from people the result will be that he will come on the day of resurrection with no flesh on his face.â (Bukhari and Muslim.)
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Hadith #1752 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Muâawiya reported Godâs messenger as saying, âDo not beg importunately, for I swear by God that none of you who asks me for anything and gets out of me what he asks when I disapprove of it will receive a blessing concerning what I have given him.â Muslim transmitted it.
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Hadith #1753 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Az-Zubair b. al-âAwwam reported Godâs messenger as saying, âIt is better for one of you to take his rope, bring a load of firewood on his back and sell it, God thereby preserving his self-respect, than that he should beg from people whether they give him anything or refuse him.â Bukhari transmitted it.
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Hadith #1754 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Hakim b. Hizam said he begged from Godâs messenger and he gave him something, later he begged again and when he had given him something he said, âHakim, this property is green and sweet, and he who receives it with a liberal mind will be blessed in it, but he who receives it with an avaricious mind will not be blessed in it, being like one who eats without being satisfied. And the upper hand is better than the lower one.â * Hakim told that he replied, âMessenger of God, by Him who sent y
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Hadith #1755 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Ibn âUmar reported that Godâs messenger said when he was on the pulpit speaking of sadaqa and abstention from begging, âThe upper hand is better than the lower one, the upper being the one which bestows and the lower the one which begs.â (Bukhari and Muslim.)
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Hadith #1756 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Abu Saâid al-Khudri said some of the Ansar begged from Godâs messenger and he gave them something. They later begged from him again and he gave them something so that what he had was exhausted. He then said, âWhat I have I shall never store away from you, but God will strengthen the abstinence of him who abstains, will give a competence to him who is satisfied, and will strengthen the endurance of him who shows endurance. No one has been given a better or more ample gift than endurance.â
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Hadith #1757 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
The Prophet was giving me something and I asked him to give it to someone who had more need of it than I had, but he said, âTake it, keep it with your property and give it as sadaqa. Take what comes to you from this property when you are neither avaricious nor begging, but in other circumstances do not let your desire go after it.â (Bukhari and Muslim.)
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Hadith #1758 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Samura b. Jundub reported Godâs messenger as saying, âActs of begging are lacerations with which a man disfigures his face, so he who wishes may preserve his self-respect and he who wishes may do otherwise; but this does not apply to one who asks from a ruler, or in a situation which makes it necessary.â Abu Dawud, Tirmidhi and Nasaâi transmitted it.
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Hadith #1759 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
âAbdallah b. Masâud reported Godâs messenger as saying, âHe who begs from people when he has a sufficiency will come on the day of resurrection with his begging showing itself as scrapes, scratching or lacerations on his face.â On being asked what constituted a sufficiency, Godâs messenger replied that it was fifty dirhams or their value in gold. Abu Dawud, Tirmidhi, Nasaâi, Ibn Majah and Darimi transmitted it.
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Hadith #1760 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Sahl b. al-Hanzaliya reported Godâs messenger as saying, âHe who begs when he has a sufficiency is simply asking for a great amount of hell.â An-Nufaili, who was one of its transmitters, said in another place that he was asked what was a sufficiency which made begging unfitting and replied that it was what would provide a morning and an evening meal. In another place he said it was when one had enough for a day, or for a night and a day. Abu Dawud transmitted it.
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Hadith #1761 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
âAtaâ b. Yasar, on the authority of a man of the B. Asad, reported Godâs messenger as saying, âIf any of you begs when he has an Uqiya* or its equivalent, he has begged immoderately.â Malik, Abu DawQd and Nasaâi transmitted it. * The Uqiya (ounce) of the Arabs was forty dirhams.
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Hadith #1762 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Hubshi b. Janada reported Godâs messenger as saying, âBegging is not allowable to a rich man, or to one who has strength and is sound in limb, but only to one who is in grinding poverty or is seriously in debt. If anyone begs to increase thereby his property, it will appear as lacerations on his face on the day of resurrection and as heated stones which he will eat from jahannam. So let him who wishes ask little, and let him who wishes ask much.â Tirmidhi transmitted it.
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Hadith #1763 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
one who is in grinding poverty, one who is seriously in debt, or one who is responsible for blood-wit he finds it difficult to pay.â Abu Dawud transmitted it, and Ibn Majah transmitted up to âthe day of resurrection.â
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Hadith #1764 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Ibn Masâud reported Godâs messenger as saying, âIf one who is afflicted by poverty refers it to men, his poverty will not be brought to an end; but if one refers it to God, He will soon give him sufficiency, either by a speedy death or by a sufficiency which comes later.â Abu Dawud and Tirmidhi transmitted it.
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Hadith #1765 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Ibn al-Firasi said that al-Firasi asked Godâs messenger whether he might beg, and the Prophet replied, âNo; but if there is no escape from it, beg from the upright.â Abu Dawud and Nasaâi transmitted it.
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Hadith #1766 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
âUmar employed me to collect the sadaqa, and when I finished doing so and gave it to him he ordered payment to be given me, but I said, âI did it only for Godâs sake, and my reward will come from God.â He replied, âTake what you are given, for I acted as a collector in the time of Godâs messenger, and when he assigned me a payment I said the same kind of thing as you have said, to which he replied that when I was given something without asking for it I should use it for my own purpos
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Hadith #1767 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
âAli told how, when he heard a man begging from the people on the day of âArafa, he said, âOn this day and in this place do you beg from anyone but God?â He then struck him with a whip. Razin transmitted it.
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Hadith #1768 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
âUmar said, âYou people must know that covetousness is poverty, despair is wealth, and that when a man despairs of anything he can dispense with it.â. Razin transmitted it.
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Hadith #1769 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Thauban reported Godâs messenger as saying, âIf anyone guarantees me that he will not beg from people, I will guarantee him paradise.â Thauban said that he would, and he never asked anyone for anything. Abu Dawud and Nasaâi transmitted it.
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Hadith #1770 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Abu Dharr said that Godâs messenger called him and laid a condition on him that he should not ask people for anything. When he agreed he said, âNot even for your whip when you drop it. You must dismount and get it yourself.â Ahmad transmitted it.
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Hadith #1771 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Abu Huraira reported Godâs messenger as saying, âIf I had gold to the extent of Uhud I would not like to keep any of it more than three days, except what I put aside to pay a debt.â Bukhari transmitted it.
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Hadith #1772 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
He reported him as saying that two angels come down every morning and one says, âO God, give him who spends something in place of it;â the other says, âO God, give him who withholds destruction.â (Bukhari and Muslim.)
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Hadith #1773 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Asmaâ reported Godâs messenger as saying, âSpend, do not calculate and so have God calculating against you, do not hoard and so have God hoarding from you, but give such small amounts as you can.â (Bukhari and Muslim.)
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Hadith #1774 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Abu Huraira reported Godâs messenger as stating that God most high had said, âIf you spend, son of Adam, I shall spend on you.â (Bukhari and Muslim.)
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Hadith #1775 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Abu Umama reported Godâs messenger as saying, âSon of Adam, to give away what you have extra is better for you and to withhold it is worse for you, but you are not blamed for having a sufficiency. Give first to those who are dependent on you.â Muslim transmitted it.
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Hadith #1776 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Abu Huraira reported Godâs messenger as saying, âThe niggardly man and the one who gives alms are like two men wearing coats of iron with their hands pressed closely to their breasts and their collar-bones. As often as the one who gives alms does so it becomes expanded for him, but as often as the niggardly man thinks about giving alms it contracts and every ring keeps to its place.â (Bukhari and Muslim.)
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Hadith #1777 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Jabir reported Godâs messenger as saying, âBeware of oppression, for oppression (zulm) will produce excessive darkness (zulumat) on the day of resurrection; and beware of niggardliness, for niggardliness destroyed your predecessor, inducing them to shed one anotherâs blood and to treat things forbidden them as lawful.â Muslim transmitted it.
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Hadith #1778 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Haritha b. Wahb told that Godâs messenger exhorted the people to give sadaqa, for the time was coming when a man would go with his sadaqa and find no one to accept it. A man would say, âIf you had brought it yesterday I would have accepted it, but I have no need of it today.â (Bukhari and Muslim.)
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Hadith #1779 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Abu Huraira told that when a man asked Godâs messenger which sadaqa produced the greatest reward he replied, âThat which you give when you are healthy and inclined to be mean, fearing poverty and hoping for a competence. Do not put it off and then say when you are about to die that you give such and such to so and so and such and such to so and so when it has already become the property of so and so.â* (Bukhari and Muslim.) * i.e. by inheritance.
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Hadith #1780 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
I came to the Prophet when he was sitting in the shade of the Kaâba, and when he saw me he said, âBy the Lord of the Kaâba, they are the ones who suffer the greatest loss.â I asked, âWho are they, you for whom I would give my father and my mother as ransom?â He replied, âThose who have most property, except those who say, âTake this and this and this,â before them, behind them, on their right and on their left; but they are few.â (Bukhari and Muslim.)
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Hadith #1781 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Abu Huraira reported Godâs messenger as saying, âThe generous man is near God, near paradise, near men and far from hell, but the miserly man is far from God, far from paradise, far from men and near hell. Indeed, an ignorant man who is generous is dearer to God than a worshipper who is miserly.â Tirmidhi transmitted it.
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Hadith #1782 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Abu Saâid al-Khudri reported Godâs messenger as saying, âIt is better for a man to give a dirham as sadaqa during his lifetime than to give a hundred at the time of his death.â Abu Dawud transmitted it.
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Hadith #1783 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Abud Dardaâ reported Godâs messenger as saying, âOne who gives sadaqa or who frees a slave at the time of his death is like one who gives gifts when he has more than enough.â Ahmad, Nasaâi, Darimi and Tirmidhi transmitted it, and Tirmidhi said it is sahih.
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Hadith #1784 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
miserliness and a bad disposition.â Tirmidhi transmitted it.
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Hadith #1785 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Abu Bakr as-Siddiq reported Godâs messenger as saying, âA crafty one, a miser, and one who keeps reminding people of what he has given will not enter paradise.â Tirmidhi transmitted it.
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Hadith #1786 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Abu Huraira reported Godâs messenger as saying, âThe worst things in a man are anxious niggardliness and unrestrained cowardice.â Abd Dawud transmitted it.
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Hadith #1787 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
âAâisha said that when some of the Prophetâs wives asked him which of them would join him soonest, he replied that it would be the one with the longest arm. So they took a rod and measured, and Sauda was the one among them who had the longest arm. They later came to know that sadaqa was the meaning of the length of the arm, for Zainab was the one who joined him soonest and she was fond of giving sadaqa.* Bukhari transmitted it. In Muslimâs version she reported Godâs messsenger as sayin
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Hadith #1788 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Abu Huraira said that Godâs messenger told of a man who expressed his intention to give sadaqa, and who when he took it out placed it in a thiefâs hand. In the morning the people were talking and saying, âSadaqa was given to a thief last night.â The man said, âO God, to Thee be the praiseâto a thief!ââ He then expressed his intention to give sadaqa and when he took it out he placed it in a prostituteâs hand. In the morning the people were talking and saying, âSadaqa was given
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Hadith #1789 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
He said that the Prophet told of a man in a waterless plain hearing a voice from a cloud say, âWater so and soâs garden.â Those clouds then moved away and emptied their water on a lava tract, and a channel collected the whole of that water. He followed the water and came upon a man standing in his garden diverting the water with his spade. He asked him his name, and when he told him, it was the very name he had heard from the cloud. The man then asked him why he had asked his name, and he
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Hadith #1790 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
He said he had heard the Prophet say there were three men among the B. Israâil, one leprous, one bald and one blind, whom God wished to test. He therefore sent to them an angel who came to the leper and asked him what he would like best and he replied, âA good colour, a good skin, and to be rid of what makes me loathsome to people.â Thereupon he stroked him and his loathsomeness departed and he was given a good colour and a good skin. He then asked What property he would like best and he r
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Hadith #1791 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Umm Bujaid said she told Godâs messenger that a poor man would stand at her door till she was ashamed, for she had nothing in her house to put in his hand, and he replied, âPut something in his hand, even though it should be a burnt hoof.â Ahmad, Abu Dawud and Tirmidhi transmitted it, Tirmidhi saying that this is a hasan sahih tradition.
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Hadith #1792 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
A client of âUthman said that Umm Salama was presented with a piece of meat, and because the Prophet liked meat she told the servant to put it in the house as the Prophet might perhaps eat it. She put it in the window ledge in the house. A beggar came and stood at the door and said, âGive alms, may God bless you,â and when they replied, âGod bless you,â* the beggar went away. Then the Prophet entered and asked Umm Salama whether she had anything for him to eat. She replied that she had
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Hadith #1793 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Ibn âAbbas said that the Prophet asked some people whether they would like him to tell them who was in the worst position, and when they replied that they would, he said, âThe one who is asked for something in Godâs name and does not give it in His name.â Ahmad transmitted it.
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Hadith #1794 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Abu Dharr said that he came with his stick in his hand and asked âUthman for permission to enter and this was granted. âUthman then told Kaâb that âAbd ar-Rahman had died leaving some property and asked what he thought about it. When he replied that if he had given what was due to God on it there was no harm in it, Abu Dharr raised his stick and struck Kaâb and said he had heard Godâs messenger say, âIf I had a quantity of gold equivalent to this mountain which I could spend and ha
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Hadith #1795 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
âUqba b. al-Harith said that on an occasion when he had prayed the afternoon prayer in Medina behind the Prophet, he got up quickly after uttering the salutation and, stepping over the people, went to one of the rooms of his wives. The people were startled at his haste, and when he came out and saw their astonishment at his quick movement he said, âI remembered some gold which we had and did not want to be under its thrall, so I gave orders that it should be distributed.â Bukhari transmitt
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Hadith #1796 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
âAâisha said that during the illness of Godâs messenger she had six or seven dinars belonging to him which he ordered her to distribute, but she was kept busy ministering to his suffering. He asked her what had happened to the six or seven dinars, and when she replied she had done nothing about them because she had been kept busy ministering to his suffering, he called for them, and placing them in his hand he said, âWhat would Godâs prophet think if he were to meet God who is great an
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Hadith #1797 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Abu Huraira said that when the Prophet once visited Bilal and saw he had a heap of dates, he asked him what it was. One his replying, âIt is something I have stored up for tomorrow,â he said, âAre you not afraid that tomorrow you may see on account of it steam in the fire of jahannam on the day of resurrection? Spend it, Bilal, and do not fear poverty from the Lord of the Throne.â Baihaqi transmitted it in Shuâab al-iman.
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Hadith #1798 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
He reported Godâs messenger as saying, âLiberality is a tree in paradise of which he who is liberal will seize a branch, and the branch will not leave him till it brings him into paradise. And niggardliness is a tree in hell of which he who is niggardly will seize a branch, and the branch will not leave him till it brings him into hell.â Baihaqi transmitted it in Shuâab al-iman.
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Hadith #1799 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
âAli reported Godâs messenger as saying, âGive the sadaqa without delay, for it stands in the way of calamity.â* Razln transmitted it. * The idea is that it acts as a barrier beyond which calamity cannot pass.
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Hadith #1800 - Mishkat al-Masabih (Mishkat al-Masabih)
Abu Huraira reported Godâs messenger as saying, âIf anyone gives as sadaqa the equivalent of a date from something lawfully earned, for God accepts only what is lawful, God will accept it with His right hand, then foster it for the one who gave it as one of you fosters his colt, till it becomes like a mountain.â (Bukhari and Muslim.)
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