Tag: Q n A, Bukhari

Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) (p.b.u.h) said, “A man said that he would give something in charity. He went out with
his object of charity and unknowingly gave it to a thief. Next morning the people said that he had
given his object of charity to a thief. (On hearing that) he said, “O Allah! All the praises are for you. I
will give alms again.” And so he again went out with his alms and (unknowingly) gave it to an
adulteress. Next morning the people said that he had given his alms to an adulteress last night. The
man said, “O Allah! All the praises are for you. (I gave my alms) to an adulteress. I will give alms
again.” So he went out with his alms again and (unknowingly) gave it to a rich person. (The people)
next morning said that he had given his alms to a wealthy person. He said, “O Allah! All the praises
are for you. (I had given alms) to a thief, to an adulteress and to a wealthy man.” Then someone came
and said to him, “The alms which you gave to the thief, might make him abstain from stealing, and
that given to the adulteress might make her abstain from illegal sexual intercourse (adultery), and that
given to the wealthy man might make him take a lesson from it and spend his wealth which Allah has
given him, in Allah’s cause.”

My grandfather, my father and I gave the pledge of allegiance to Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ). The Prophet (ﷺ) got me
engaged and then got me married. One day I went to the Prophet (ﷺ) with a complaint. My father Yazid
had taken some gold coins for charity and kept them with a man in the mosque (to give them to the
poor) But I went and took them and brought them to him (my father). My father said, “By Allah! I did
not intend to give them to you. ” I took (the case) to Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) . On that Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) said, “O
Yazid, you will be rewarded for what you intended. O Ma’n, whatever you have taken is yours.”

The Prophet (p.b.u.h) said, “Seven people will be shaded by Allah under His shade on the day when
there will be no shade except His. They are:
(1) a just ruler;
(2) a young man who has been brought up in the worship of Allah, (i.e. worship Allah (Alone)
sincerely from his childhood),
(3) a man whose heart is attached to the mosque (who offers the five compulsory congregational
prayers in the mosque);
(4) two persons who love each other only for Allah’s sake and they meet and part in Allah’s cause
only;
(5) a man who refuses the call of a charming woman of noble birth for an illegal sexual intercourse
with her and says: I am afraid of Allah;
(6) a person who practices charity so secretly that his left hand does not know what his right hand has
given (i.e. nobody knows how much he has given in charity).
(7) a person who remembers Allah in seclusion and his eyes get flooded with tears.”

I heard the Prophet (p.b.u.h) saying, “(O people!) Give in charity (for Allah’s cause) because a time
will come when a person will carry his object of charity from place to place (and he will not find any
person to take it) and any person whom he shall request to take it, I will reply, ‘If you had brought it
yesterday I would have taken it, but today I am not in need of it.”

Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) said, “When a woman gives in charity some of the foodstuff (which she has in her
house) without spoiling it, she will receive the reward for what she has spent, and her husband will
receive the reward because of his earning, and the storekeeper will also have a reward similar to it.
The reward of one will not decrease the reward of the others . ”

The Prophet (p.b.u.h) said, “The best charity is that which is practiced by a wealthy person. And start
giving first to your dependents.”

I heard the Prophet (ﷺ) saying, “O people! Give in charity as a time will come upon you when a person
will wander about with his object of charity and will not find anybody to accept it, and one (who will
be requested to take it) will say, “If you had brought it yesterday, would have taken it, but today I am
not in need of it.”

The Prophet (ﷺ) sent Mu`adh to Yemen and said, “Invite the people to testify that none has the right to be
worshipped but Allah and I am Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ), and if they obey you to do so, then teach them that
Allah has enjoined on them five prayers in every day and night (in twenty-four hours), and if they
obey you to do so, then teach them that Allah has made it obligatory for them to pay the Zakat from
their property and it is to be taken from the wealthy among them and given to the poor.”

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “The Hour (Day of Judgment) will not be established till your wealth increases so
much so that one will be worried, for no one will accept his Zakat and the person to whom he will
give it will reply, ‘I am not in need of it.’ ”

A man said to the Prophet (ﷺ) “Tell me of such a deed as will make me enter Paradise.” The people said,
“What is the matter with him? What is the matter with him?” The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “He has something to
ask. (What he needs greatly) The Prophet (ﷺ) said: (In order to enter Paradise) you should worship Allah
and do not ascribe any partners to Him, offer prayer perfectly, pay the Zakat and keep good relations
with your Kith and kin.” (See Hadith No. 12, Vol 8).