Gardens of the Righteous — Page 117
RIYADH AS-SALIHIN 551. This hadith is the same as No. 297. 117 552. Abu Hurairah relates that the Holy Prophet said: Allah, the. Exalted, says: Spend, son of Adam, you will also be spent upon (Bokhari and. Muslim). 553. Abdullah ibn Amr ibn 'As relates that a man asked the Holy. Prophet. What in Islam is best? He answered: To feed people and to greet everyone with the greeting of peace whether you know them or not (Bokhari and Muslim). 554. This hadith is the same as No. 138. 555. This hadith is the same as No. 513 with the addition: The upper hand is better than the lower (Muslim). 556. Anas relates that whenever in Islam a person asked the Holy. Prophet anything he gave it to him. A man came to him and he gave him a flock of sheep scattered over a valley. When he returned to his people he said to them: O my people, accept Islam for Muhammad bestows on a scale that leaves no fear of poverty. Even when person became a Muslim out of a worldly motive, in a short while Islam became dearer to him than the world and all in it (Muslim). 557. Umar relates that the Holy Prophet distributed some property and. I said to him: Messenger of Allah, the others were more deserving than these. . He said they have given me a choice. Either they should ask me openly and I would give them, or they might charge me with miserliness and I am not a miser (Muslim). 558. Jubair ibn Mut'im relates that while he walked with the Holy. Prophet during his return from Hunain some rustics caught hold of him and began asking him for a portion of the spoils. They pushed him under a tree and someone snatched away his cloak. The Holy Prophet came to a halt and said: Restore my cloak to me; had I at my disposal bounties of the number of the leaves of this thorny tree I would have distributed all of them among you and you would not have found me a miser, or a liar, or a coward (Bokhari). 559. Abu Hurairah relates that the Holy Prophet said: Wealth is not diminished by charity; Allah augments the honour of one who forgives, and one serves another for the sake of Allah but Allah exalts him in rank (Muslim). 560. Amr ibn Sa'ad Anmari relates that he heard the Holy Prophet say:. Three things I can guarantee, and remember well what I am going to tell you:. No one's wealth is diminished by charity; Allah augments the honour of him who endures a wrong steadfastly; and no one starts begging but Allah inflicts poverty upon him. He also said: Remember well what I am going to tell you:. The world is made up of four kinds of people: One, a person upon whom. Allah bestows wealth and knowledge and he minds his duty to his Lord in respect of them, strengthens the ties of kinship and acknowledges the rights of. Allah in them. Such a one is in the best position. Two, a person upon whom. Allah bestows knowledge but no wealth and he is sincere and says: Had I