Narrated Abu Saeed al-Khudri: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: If anyone begs when he has something equivalent to an uqiyah in value, he has begged immoderately. So I said: My she-camel, Yaqutah, is better than an uqiyah. The version of Hisham goes: better than forty dirhams. So I returned and did not beg anything from him. Hisham added in his version: An uqiyah during the time of the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم was equivalent to forty dirhams.
Read More..Narrated Sahl ibn Hanzaliyyah: Uyaynah ibn Hisn and Aqra ibn Habis came to the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم. They begged from him. He commanded to give them what they begged. He ordered Muawiyah to write a document to give what they begged. Aqra took his document, wrapped it in his turban, and went away. As for Uyaynah, he took his document and came to the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم at his home, and said to him: Muhammad, do you see me? I am taking a document to my people, but I do not know what it contains, just like the document of al-Mutalammis. Muawiyah informed the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم of his statement. Thereupon the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: He who begs (from people) when he has sufficient is simply asking for a large amount of Hell-fire. (An-Nufayl (a transmitter) said elsewhere: embers of Hell . ) They asked: Messenger of Allah, what is a sufficiency? (Elsewhere an-Nufayl said: What is a sufficiency which makes begging unfitting?) He replied: It is that which would provide a morning and an evening meal. (Elsewhere an-Nufayl said: It is when one has enough for a day and night, or for a night and a day. ) He (an-Nufayl) narrated to us this tradition briefly in the words that I have mentioned.
Read More..Narrated Ziyad ibn al-Harith as-Sudai: I came to the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم and swore allegiance to him, and after telling a long story he said: Then a man came to him and said: Give me some of the sadaqah (alms). The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: Allah is not pleased with a Prophet's or anyone else's 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 what you desire.
Read More..Abu Hurairah reported Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم as saying: The poor man (miskin) is not one who is admitted (by the people) with one or two dates or with one or two morsels but is one, who does not beg anything from his people and is not taken notice of so that alms may be given to him.
Read More..Narrated Abu Hurairah: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said something similar as mentioned in the preceding tradition. This version adds: But the poor man (miskin) who abstains from begging from the people is one (according to the version of Musaddad who does not get enough so that he may not beg from the people, nor is his need known to the people, so that alms be given to him. This is the one who has been deprived. Musaddad did not mention the words one who avoids begging from the people. Abu Dawud said: This tradition has been transmitted by Muhammad bin Thawr and Abd al-Razzaq on the authority of Mamar. They mentioned that the word deprived is the statement of al-Zuhri, and this is more sound.
Read More..Narrated Ubaydullah ibn Adl ibn al-Khiyar: Two men informed me that they went to the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم 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 we were robust, he said: If you wish, I shall give you something, but there is nothing spare in it for a rich man or for one who is strong and able to earn a living.
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