Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Riyad as-Salihin - On generosity, magnanimity and spending in good ways with trust in Allah Almighty Hadith

 

Chapter: On
generosity, magnanimity and spending in good ways with trust in Allah
Almighty

Allah Almighty says, "Anything you expend will be replaced by
Him."
(34:39)

and the Almighty says, "Whatever good you give away is to
your own benefit when you give desiring only the Face of Allah. Whatever good
you give away will be repaid to you in full. You will not be wronged."
(W2:271; H2:272)

The Almighty says, "Whatever good you give away, Allah
knows it."
(W2:272; H2:273)

544. Ibn Mas'ud reported that the
Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "You can only have envy
for two things: for a man to whom Allah has given wealth which he spends for the
truth, and for a man to whom Allah has given wisdom and he acts by it and
teaches it." [Agreed upon]

545. Ibn Mas'ud reported that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and
grant him peace, said, "Which of you loves the property of his heir more than he
loves his own property?" They said, "O Messenger of Allah, there is none of us
who does not love his own property more." He said, "His property is what he
sends ahead, and the property of his heir is what he keeps back." [al-Bukhari]

546. 'Adi ibn Hatim reported that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him
and grant him peace, said, "Protect yourselves from the Fire, even if only with
half a date." [Agreed upon]

547. Jabir said, "The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him
peace, was not asked for anything at all to which he said, 'No.'" [Agreed upon]

548. Abu Hurayra reported that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him
peace, said, "There is no day which dawns on the slaves Of Allah without two
angels descending and one of them saying, 'O Allah, refund those who give money'
and the other saying, 'O Allah, ruin those who withhold it.'" [Agreed upon]

549. Abu Hurayra reported that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him
and grant him peace, said, "Allah Almighty says, 'Son of Adam, spend and you
will be spent on.'" [Agreed upon]

550. 'Abdullah ibn 'Amr ibn al-'As reported that a man asked the Messenger of
Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, "Which aspect of Islam is best?"
He said, "To give food and to give the greeting to those you know and those you
do not know." [Agreed upon]

551. 'Abdullah ibn 'Amr reported that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless
him and grant him peace, said, "There are forty good qualities, the highest of
which is giving away all of an animal's milk. If anyone acts with any one of
these qualities hoping for its reward and affirming what is promised by it, on
account of it Allah will admit him to the Garden." [al-Bukhari]

552. Abu Umama Suda ibn 'Ajlan reported that the Messenger of Allah, may
Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "O son of Adam! It is better for you
to spend what is in excess of your needs and worse for you to keep it. You will
not be blamed for (keeping) enough to cover your needs. Begin with your
immediate dependants. The upper hand is better than the lower hand." [Muslim]

553. Anas said, "The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him
peace, was not asked in Islam for anything without giving it. A man came to him
and he gave him sheep filling the space between two mountains and he returned to
his people saying, 'O people! Become Muslim! Muhammad gives a gift without any
fear of poverty.' Even if a man becomes Muslim only out of desire for this
world, it is not long before Islam becomes dearer to him than this world and
everything in it." [Muslim]

554. 'Umar said, "The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him
peace, made a distribution and I said, 'O Messenger of Allah, other people are
more entitled to it than these.' He said, 'They gave me no option. Either they
would have asked me in a very coarse way or they would have considered me
miserly, and I am not miserly.'" [Muslim]

555. Jubayr ibn Mut'im said that while he was travelling with the Prophet,
returning from Hunayn, some desert Arabs began to grab hold of him, when asking
of him, until they forced him back against an acacia tree and his cloak was
pulled right off. The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, topped
and said, "Give me my cloak. If I had had as many camels as the number of these
trees, I would have divided them between you. You will not find me to be a
miser, a liar nor a coward." [al-Bukhari]

556. Abu Hurayra reported that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him
and grant him peace, said, "Sadaqa does not decrease wealth in any way, and for
pardoning someone Allah only increases a slave in might, and no one is humble
without Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, elevating him." [Muslim]

557. Abu Kabsha 'Umar ibn Sa'd al-Anmari heard the Messenger of Allah, may
Allah bless him and grant him peace, say, "Three things I can swear to you and I
will tell you something you should remember. The property of a slave is not
decreased by sadaqa. There is no slave who is inflicted by an injustice and is
steadfast in it, without Allah increasing him in might. No slave opens the door
of begging without Allah opening for him the door of poverty." - or words to
that effect. "The something which you should remember," he said, "Is that this
world consists of four types of people. There is a slave whom Allah provides
with money and knowledge and he is fearful of his Lord in respect of it and
maintains ties of kinship with it and acknowledges the right of Allah over it.
This one is in the best position. There is a slave whom Allah provides with
knowledge but does not provide with money. He has a sincere intention and says,
'If I had money, I would have acted as so-and-so acted.' He has according to his
intention, so the reward of both of them is the same. There is a slave whom
Allah provides with money but does not provide with knowledge, so he proceeds
haphazardly with his money without any knowledge. He is not fearful of his Lord
in respect of it nor does he maintain ties of kinship with it nor acknowledge
the right of Allah over it. This person is in the worst position. There is a
slave whom Allah does not provide with either money nor knowledge, so he says,
'If I had money, I would have acted as so-and-so acted. He has according to his
intention, so the burden of sin of both of them is the same."

558. 'A'isha reported that they sacrificed a sheep and the Prophet, may Allah
bless him and grant him peace, said, "How much of it is left?" She said, "All
that remains of it is its shoulder." He said, "On the contrary, all of it
remains except its shoulder." [at-Tirmidhi]

559. Asma' bint Abi Bakr as-Siddiq said, "The Messenger of Allah, may Allah
bless him and grant him peace, said to me, 'Do not withhold or it will be
withheld from you.'" [Agreed upon]

In one variant, "Spend, (or give out or expend) and do not hold back, or
Allah will hold back from you. Do not refuse to spend your surplus or Allah will
deny you His."

560. Abu Hurayra reported that he heard the Messenger of Allah, may Allah
bless him and grant him peace, say, "The likeness of the miser and the one who
gives is like two men wearing shirts of chain-mail from their breasts to their
collar bones. When the giver of sadaqa spends, his shirt expands over his
body until it covers his fingertips and obliterates his footsteps. When the
miser wants to spend anything, every link remains in its place. He tries to make
it looser but it will not get looser." [Agreed upon]

561. Abu Hurayra reported that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him
and grant him peace, said, "If anyone gives in sadaqa as much as a date from
honest earnings - and Allah only accepts what is good - Allah will accept it in
His right hand and will then increase it in size for the giver, just like one of
you might rear a foal, until it is the size of a mountain." [Agreed upon]

562. Abu Hurayra reported that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him
peace, said, "Once while a man was walking in the desert, he heard a voice in a
cloud saying, 'Water the garden of so-and-so.' And that cloud went and poured
out its water into a rocky area. There was a certain water channel which held
all the water and he followed it and found a man standing in his garden
directing the water with his spade. He said to him. 'Slave of Allah, what is
your name?' He said, 'So-and-so' giving the same name he had heard from the
cloud. The man then said to him, 'O slave of Allah, why did you ask me my name?'
He said, 'I heard a voice in the cloud from which this water came say, "Water
the garden of so-and-so" giving your name. What are you doing with it?' He said,
'Since you have said this, I will [say]. I wait and see what it produces and
give a third of it away as sadaqa, and my family and I eat from a third,
and I reinvest a third back into it." [Muslim]

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