رياض الصالحين
Riyad as-Salihin Hadith 90
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Chapter 9
Chapter context: Hastening to do Good Deeds
- باب المبادرة إلى الخيرات وحث من توجه لخير على الإقبال عليه بالجد من غير تردد
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Original Arabic
عن أبي هريرة ، قَالَ : جاءَ رَجُلٌ إِلَى النَّبيِّ فَقَالَ : يَا رسولَ الله ، أيُّ الصَّدَقَةِ أعْظَمُ أجْرَاً ؟ قَالَ : « أنْ تَصَدَّقَ وَأنتَ صَحيحٌ شَحيحٌ ، تَخشَى الفَقرَ وتَأمُلُ الغِنَى ، وَلا تُمهِلْ حَتَّى إِذَا بَلَغتِ الحُلقُومَ قُلْتَ لِفُلان كذا ولِفُلانٍ كَذا ، وقَدْ كَانَ لِفُلانٍ » . مُتَّفَقٌ عَلَيهِ .
Translation
English translation
Abu Hurairah (May Allah be pleased with him) said:
There came a man to the Prophet (ﷺ) and said, "O Messenger of Allah, which charity is the most rewardable?" He (ﷺ) said, "That you should give charity (in a state when you are) healthy and stingy and fear poverty, hoping to become rich (charity in such a state of health and mind is the best). And you must not defer (charity to such a length) that you are about to die and would be saying: 'This is for so-and-so, and this for so-and-so.' Lo! It has already come into (the possession of) so-and- so". [Al-Bukhari and Muslim].
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This is Hadith 90 in Riyad as-Salihin. It appears in Book 1, The Book of Miscellany, as in-book entry 90 under the chapter “Hastening to do Good Deeds.”
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