Abdullah bin Umar reported that the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said when he was on the pulpit speaking of sadaqah and abstention from it and begging: 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 al-Warith said in his version: `The upper hand is the one which abstains from begging;” but most of the narrators have narrated from Hammad bin Zaid from Ayyub the words “ The upper hand is the one which bestows. ” A narrator from Hammad said in his version “the one which abstains from begging. ”
Read More..Narrated Malik ibn Nadlah: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم 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 to the demand of your soul.
Read More..Narrated Abu Rafi: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم sent a man of the Banu Makhzum to collect sadaqah. He said to Abu Rafi: Accompany me so that you may get some of it. He said: (I cannot take it) until I go to the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم and ask him. Then he went to him and asked him. He said: The sadaqah is not lawful for us, and the client of a people is treated as one of them.
Read More..Anas said: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم came upon a date on the road; he would not take it for fear of being a part of the sadaqah.
Read More..Anas said: Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم found a date and said: Were it not that I fear it may be part of the sadaqah, I would eat it.
Read More..Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas: My father sent me to the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم to take the camels which he had given him from among those of sadaqah.
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