Sahih al-Bukhari Hadith 636 – Volume 8, Book 78

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Volume 8, Book 78, Number 636:
Narrated 'Aisha:
Hind bint 'Utba bin Rabi 'a said, "O Allah 's Apostle! (Before I embraced Islam), there was no family
on the surface of the earth, I wish to have degraded more than I did your family. But today there is
no family whom I wish to have honored more than I did yours." Allah's Apostle said, "I thought simil –
arly, by Him in Whose Hand Muhammad's soul is!" Hind said, "O Allah's Apostle! (My husband) Abu
Sufyan is a miser. Is it sinful of me to feed my children from his property?" The Prophet said, "No,
unless you take it for your needs what is just and reasonable."