Volume 2, Book 24, Number 536:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Abu Bakr said, “By Allah! If they (pay me the Zakat and) with-hold even a she-kid which they
used to pay during the life-time of Allah’s Apostle, I will fight with them for it.” ‘Umar said, “It was
nothing but Allah Who opened Abu Bakr’s chest towards the decision to fight, and I came to know
that his decision was right.”
Volume 2, Book 24, Number 542:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah’s Apostle said, “There is no Zakat either on a horse or a slave belonging to a Muslim”
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 507:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
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.”
Volume 2, Book 24, Number 522:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said, “Every day two angels come down from Heaven and one of them says, ‘O Allah!
Compensate every person who spends in Your Cause,’ and the other (angel) says, ‘O Allah! Destroy
every miser.’ “
Volume 2, Book 24, Number 493:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet 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.’ “
Volume 2, Book 24, Number 500:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
A man came to the Prophet and asked, “O Allah’s Apostle! Which charity is the most superior in
reward?” He replied, “The charity which you practice while you are healthy, niggardly and afraid of
poverty and wish to become wealthy. Do not delay it to the time of approaching death and then say,
‘Give so much to such and such, and so much to such and such.’ And it has already belonged to such
and such (as it is too late).”
Volume 2, Book 24, Number 502:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah’s Apostle (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
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that given to the wealthy man might make him take a lesson from it and spend his wealth which Al –
lah has given him, in Allah’s cause.”