Volume 2, Book 24, Number 517:
Narrated Hakim bin Hizam:
I said to Allah’s Apostle, “Before embracing Islam I used to do good deeds like giving in charity,
slave-manumitting, and the keeping of good relations with Kith and kin. Shall I be rewarded for
those deeds?” The Prophet replied, “You became Muslim with all those good deeds (Without losing
their reward).”
Volume 2, Book 24, Number 518:
Narrated ‘Aisha:
Allah’s Apostle said, “When a woman gives in charity from her husband’s meals without wasting
the property of her husband, she will get a reward for it, and her husband too will get a reward for
what he earned and the store-keeper will have the reward likewise.”
Volume 2, Book 24, Number 503:
Narrated Ma’n bin Yazid:
My grandfather, my father and I gave the pledge of allegiance to Allah’s Apostle. The Prophet got
me engaged and then got me married. One day I went to the Prophet 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 Al –
lah! I did not intend to give them to you. ” I took (the case) to Allah’s Apostle . On that Allah’s Apostle
said, “O Yazid! You will be rewarded for what you intended. O Man! Whatever you have taken is
yours.”
Volume 2, Book 24, Number 519:
Narrated Abu Musa:
The Prophet said, “An honest Muslim store-keeper who carries out the orders of his master and
pays fully what he has been ordered to give with a good heart and pays to that person to whom he
was ordered to pay, is regarded as one of the two charitable persons.”
Volume 2, Book 24, Number 504:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
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) sin –
cerely 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 inter –
course 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.”
Volume 2, Book 24, Number 520:
Narrate Aisha:
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The Prophet said, “If a woman gives in charity from her husband’s house ..” The Prophet (p.b.u.h)
also said, “If a lady gives meals (in charity) from her husband’s house without spoiling her husband’s
property, she will get a reward and her husband will also get a reward likewise. The husband will
get a reward because of his earnings and the woman because of her spending.”
Volume 2, Book 24, Number 505:
Narrated Haritha bin Wahab Al-Khuza’i:
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
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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.”
Volume 2, Book 24, Number 521:
Narrated ‘Aisha:
The Prophet said, “When a woman gives in charity from her house meals in Allah’s Cause without
spoiling her husband’s property, she will get a reward for it, and her husband will also get the re –
ward for his earnings and the storekeeper will get a reward likewise.”