Narrated Al-Mustawrid ibn Shaddad: Al-Mustawrid heard the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم say: He who acts as an employee for us must get a wife; if he has not a servant, he must get one, and if he has not a dwelling, he must get one. He said that Abu Bakr reported: I was told that the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: He who takes anything else he is unfaithful or thief. He said that Abu Bakr reported: I was told that the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: He who takes anything else he is unfaithful or thief.
Read More..Narrated Abu Humaid al-Saeedi: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم appointed a man of Azd called Ibn al-Lutbiyayah (to collect sadaqah). The narrator Ibn al-Sarh said: (He appointed) Ibn al-Utbiyyah to collect the sadaqah. When he returned he said: This is for you and this was given to me as present. So the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم stood on the pulpit, and after praising and extolling Allah he said: What is the matter with a collector of sadaqah. We send him (to collect sadaqah), and when he return he says: This is for you and this is a present which was given to me. Why did he not sit in his father's or mother's house and see whether it would be given to him or not ? Whoever takes any of it will inevitably bring it on the Day of Resurrection, be it a camel which rumbles, an ox which bellows, or sheep which-bleats. Then raising his arms so that we could see where the hair grow under his armpits, he said: O Allah, have I given full information ? O Allah, have I given full information ?
Read More..Narrated Abu Masud al-Ansari: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم appointed me to collect sadaqah and then said: Go, Abu Masud, I should not find you on the Day of Judgment carrying a camel of sadaqah on your back, which rumbles, the one you have taken by unfaithful dealing in sadaqah. He said: If it is so, I will not go. He said: Then I do not force you.
Read More..Narrated Abu Maryam al-Azdi: When I entered upon Muawiyah, he said: How good your visit is to us, O father of so-and-so. (This is an idiom used by the Arabs on such occasions). I said: I tell you a tradition which I heard (from the Prophet). I heard the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم say: If Allah puts anyone in the position of authority over the affairs of the Muslims, and he secludes himself (from them), not fulfilling their needs, wants, and poverty, Allah will keep Himself away from him, not fulfilling his need, want and poverty. He said: He (Muawiyah) appointed a man to fulfil the needs of the people.
Read More..Narrated Abu Hurairah: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: It is not on my own that I give you or withhold from you: I am just a treasure, putting it where I have been commanded.
Read More..Narrated Umar ibn al-Khattab: Malik ibn Aws ibn al-Hadthan said: One day Umar ibn al-Khattab mentioned the spoils of war and said: I am not more entitled to this spoil of war than you; and none of us is more entitled to it than another, except that we occupy our positions fixed by the Book of Allah, Who is Great and Glorious, and the division made by the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم, people being arranged according to their precedence in accepting Islam, the hardship they have endured their having children and their need.
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