Zakat & Charity

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

Two men informed me that they went to the Prophet (ﷺ) when he was at the Farewell Pilgrimage while he was distributing the sadaqah and asked him for some of it. He looked us up and down, and seeing that...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Sadaqah may not be given to a rich man or to one who has strength and is sound in limbs. Abu Dawud said: This tradition has been transmitted by Sufyan from Sa'd bin Ibrahim like the...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Sadaqah may not be given to rich man, with the exception of five classes: One who fights in Allah's path, or who collects it, or a debtor, or a man who buys it with his money,...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

Ibn ‘Uyainah reported from Zaid, from whom Malik narrated and Thwari narrated from Zaid that an authentic narrator reported from the Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him)

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) said : Sadaqah is not lawful for a rich person except what comes as a result of Jihad or what a poor neighbor gifts you out of the sadaqah given to him,...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

Basheer b. Yasar said that a man from the Ansar called Sahi b. abu-Hatmah told him that Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) gave one Hundred camels to him a blood-wit from among the camels of sadaqah, i.e...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Acts 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 abandon it; but this does not apply to one who begs...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

I became a guarantor for a payment, and I came to Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him). He said: Wait till I receive the sadaqah and I shall order it to be given to you. He then said...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

A man of the Ansar came to the Prophet (ﷺ) and begged from him. He (the Prophet) asked: Have you nothing in your house? He replied: Yes, a piece of cloth, a part of which we wear and a part...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

We were with Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him), seven or eight or nine. He said : Do you take the oath of allegiance to the Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him), and we shortly took...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

If anyone guarantees me that he will not beg from people, I will guarantee him Paradise. Thawban said : I (will not beg). He never asked anyone for anything.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

Some of the Ansar begged from the Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) 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...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: If one who is afflicted with poverty refers it to me, his poverty will not be brought to an end; but if one refers it to Allah, He will soon give him sufficiency, either by a...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

Al-Firasi asked the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ): May I beg, Messenger of Allah? The Prophet (ﷺ) said: No, but if there is no escape from it, beg from the upright.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

Umar employed me to collect the sadaqah. When I finished doing so and gave it to him, he ordered payment to be given to me. I said: I did only for Allah’s sake, and my reward will come from Allah....

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

the upper hand is better than the lower one, the upper being the one which bestows and the lower which begs. Abu Dawud said : The version of this tradition narrated by Ayyub from Nafi is disputed. The narrator `Abd...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Hands are of three types: Allah's hand is the upper one; the bestower's hand is the one near it; the beggar's hand is the lower one. So bestow what is surplus, and do not submit yourself...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

The Prophet (ﷺ) sent a man of the Banu Makhzum to collect sadaqah. He said to AbuRafi': Accompany me so that you may get some of it. He said: (I cannot take it) until I go to the Prophet (ﷺ)...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

The Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) came upon a date on the road; he would not take it for fear of being a part of the sadaqah.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) found a date and said: Were it not that I fear it may be part of the sadaqah, I would eat it.