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.
Read More..Narrated Abdullah ibn Umar: Zayd ibn Aslam said: Abdullah ibn Umar entered upon Muawiyah. He asked: (Tell me) your need, Abu Abdur Rahman. He replied: Give (the spoils) to those who were set free, for I saw the first thing the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم did when anything came to him was to give something to those who had been set free.
Read More..Narrated Aishah, Ummul Muminin: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم was brought a pouch containing bead and divided it among free women and slave women. Aishah said: My father used to divide things between free men and slave.
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