Sunan Abi Dawud · Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)
باب مَنْ يُعْطَى مِنَ الصَّدَقَةِ وَحَدِّ الْغِنَى
Chapter: To Whom Zakat Is To Be Paid And The Definition Of A Wealthy Person.
9 hadith · references 1626–1634
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Abu Dawud · 1626مَنْ سَأَلَ وَلَهُ مَا يُغْنِيهِ جَاءَتْ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ خُمُوشٌ أَوْ خُدُوشٌ أَوْ كُدُوحٌ فِي وَجْهِهِNarrated Abdullah ibn Masud: The Prophet ﷺ said: He who begs (from people) when he is affluent will come on the Day of Resurrection with scrapes, scratchings, or lacerations on his face. He was asked: What constitutes af7 narratorsAbu Dawud · 1627يَغْضَبُ عَلَيَّ أَنْ لَا أَجِدَ مَا أُعْطِيهِ ، مَنْ سَأَلَ مِنْكُمْ وَلَهُ أُوقِيَّةٌ أَوْ عِدْلُهَا فَقَدْ سَأَلَ إِلْحَافًاAta bin Yasar said: A man from Banu Asad said: I and my family alighted at Baqi al-Gharqad. My wife said to me: Go the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and beg something from him for our eating, and made a mention of there need. So 5 narratorsAbu Dawud · 1628مَنْ سَأَلَ وَلَهُ قِيمَةُ أُوقِيَّةٍ فَقَدْ أَلْحَفَNarrated Abu Saeed al-Khudri: The Prophet ﷺ said: If anyone begs when he has something equivalent to an uqiyah in value, he has begged immoderately. So I said: My she-camel, Yaqutah, is better than an uqiyah. The version6 narratorsAbu Dawud · 1629مَنْ سَأَلَ وَعِنْدَهُ مَا يُغْنِيهِ فَإِنَّمَا يَسْتَكْثِرُ مِنَ النَّارِNarrated Sahl ibn Hanzaliyyah: Uyaynah ibn Hisn and Aqra ibn Habis came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. They begged from him. He commanded to give them what they begged. He ordered Muawiyah to write a document to give what 6 narratorsAbu Dawud · 1630إِنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى لَمْ يَرْضَ بِحُكْمِ نَبِيٍّ وَلَا غَيْرِهِ فِي الصَّدَقَاتِ حَتَّى حَكَمَ فِيهَا هُوَ فَجَزَّأَهَا ثَمَانِيَةَ أَجْزَاءٍ فَإِنْ كُنْتَ مِنْ تِلْكَ الْأَجْزَاءِ أَعْطَيْتُكَ حَقَّكَNarrated Ziyad ibn al-Harith as-Sudai: I came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and swore allegiance to him, and after telling a long story he said: Then a man came to him and said: Give me some of the sadaqah (alms). The Mess5 narratorsAbu Dawud · 1631لَيْسَ الْمِسْكِينُ الَّذِي تَرُدُّهُ التَّمْرَةُ وَالتَّمْرَتَانِ وَالْأَكْلَةُ وَالْأَكْلَتَانِ وَلَكِنَّ الْمِسْكِينَ الَّذِي لَا يَسْأَلُ النَّاسَ شَيْئًا وَلَا يَفْطِنُونَ بِهِ فَيُعْطُونَهُAbu Hurairah reported Messenger of Allah ﷺ as saying: The poor man (miskin) is not one who is admitted (by the people) with one or two dates or with one or two morsels but is one, who does not beg anything from his peopl6 narratorsAbu Dawud · 1632لَيْسَ لَهُ مَا يَسْتَغْنِي بِهِ الَّذِي لَا يَسْأَلُ وَلَا يُعْلَمُ بِحَاجَتِهِ فَيُتَصَدَّقَ عَلَيْهِ فَذَاكَ الْمَحْرُومُNarrated Abu Hurairah: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said something similar as mentioned in the preceding tradition. This version adds: But the poor man (miskin) who abstains from begging from the people is one (according to 8 narratorsAbu Dawud · 1633إِنَّ شِئْتُمَا أَعْطَيْتُكُمَا وَلَا حَظَّ فِيهَا لِغَنِيٍّ وَلَا لِقَوِيٍّ مُكْتَسِبٍNarrated Ubaydullah ibn Adl ibn al-Khiyar: Two men informed me that they went to the Prophet ﷺ when he was at the Farewell Pilgrimage while he was distributing the sadaqah and asked him for some of it. He looked us up an6 narratorsAbu Dawud · 1634لَا تَحِلُّ الصَّدَقَةُ لِغَنِيٍّ وَلَا لِذِي مِرَّةٍ سَوِيٍّNarrated Abdullah ibn Amr: The Prophet ﷺ said: Sadaqah may not be given to a rich man or to one who has strength and is sound in limbs. Abu Dawud said: This tradition has been transmitted by Sufyan from Saad bin Ibrahim 5 narrators