Jabir reported: A person from the Banu 'Udhra set a slave free after his death. This news reached the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon hhn). Upon this he said: Have you any property besides it? He said: No. Upon this he said: Who would buy (this slave) from me? Nulaim b. Abdullah bought it for eight hundred dirhams and (this amount was) brought to the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) who returned it to him (the owner), and then said: Start with your own self and spend it on yourself, and if anything is left, it should be spent on your family, and if anything is left (after meeting the needs of the family) it should be spent on relatives, and if anything is left from the family, it should be spent like this, like this. And he was saying: In front of you, on your right and on your left.
Read More..Jabir reported that a person among the Ansar who was called Abu Madhkur granted posthumous freedom to his slave who was called Ya'qub. The rest of the hadith is the same.
Read More..Anas b. Malik is reported as saying: Abu Talha was the one among the Ansar of Medina who possessed the largest property and among his property he valued most was his garden known as Bairaha' which was opposite the mosque, and the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) often visited it and he drank of its sweet water. When this verse was revealed: You will never attain righteousness till you give freely of what you love (iii. 91), Abu Talha got up and, going to Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ), said: Allah says in His Book: You will never attain righteousness till you give freely of what you love, and the dearest of my property is Bairaha' so I give it as Sadaqa to God from Whom I hope for reward for it and the treasure with Allah; so spend it, Messenger of Allah, on whatever purpose you deem it proper. The Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said: Well done! that is a profitable deal, that is a profitable deal. I have heard what you have said, but I think you should spend it on your nearest relatives. So Abu Talha distributed it among the nearest relatives and his cousins on his father's side.
Read More..Anas reported that when this verse was tevealed: You will not attain righteousness till you give freely of what you love, Abu Talha said: I see that our Lord has demanded from us out of our property; so I make you a witness, Messenger of Allah. that I give my land known as Bairaha' for the sake of Allah. Upon this the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said: Give that to your relatives. So he gave it to Hassan b. Thabit and Ubayy b. Ka'b.
Read More..Maimuna bint Harith reported that she set free a slave-girl during the lifetime of the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) and she made a mention of that to the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) and he said: Had you gives her to your maternal uncles, you would have a greater reward.
Read More..Zainab, the wife of 'Abdullah (b. Mas'ud ), reported that the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said: 0 women, give sadaqa even though it be some of your jewellery. She returned to 'Abdullah and said: You are a person with empty hands, whereas the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) has commanded us to give sadaqa, so better go to him and ask and if this will suffice for me; otherwise I shall give it to someone else. 'Abdullah said to me (his wife): You better go yourself. So I went and there was another woman of the Ansar at the door of the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) having the same porpose as I had. Now Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) was invested with awe (so we did not like to knock). Then Bilal came out and we said to him: Go to the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) and inform him that there are two women at the door asking him whether it will serve them to give sadaqa to their spouses and to orphans who are under their charge, but do not inform him who we are. Bilal went to the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) and asked him (what these women had instructed him to ask). The Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) asked him who these women were. He (Bilal) said: They are women from Ansar and Zainab. Upon this the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said: Which of the Zainabs? He said: The wife of 'Abdullah. The Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said: There are two rewards for them, the reward of kinship and the reward of Sadaqa.
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