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RIYADH AS-SALIHIN 71 highest degree of virtue unless you spend out of that which you love; Abu Talha came to the Holy Prophet and said: Messenger of Allah, Allah has sent down to you: Never will you attain to the highest degree of virtue unless you spend out of that which you love; and the property I love most is Bairaha. I offer it in charity for the sake of Allah, hoping for its reward from Allah. So dispose of it. Messenger of Allah, as Allah might direct you. The Holy Prophet said: Well, well, this is a very good property, this is a very good property. I have heard what you have said, and I think you should divide it among your relatives. Abu. Talha said: So shall I do, Messenger of Allah; and he divided it among his cousins and relatives (Bokhari and Muslim). 38. . On Obedience to Allah and Abstention from that which Forbidden. Allah, the Exalted, has said: 125. Enjoin Prayer on thy people and be constant therein (20. 133). 126. O ye who believe, safeguard yourselves and your families against the Fire (66. 7). 300. Abu Hurairah relates that Hasan ibn Ali picked up a date from among dates offered for charity and put it in his mouth. On observing this the. Holy Prophet chided him and said: Throw it out. Know you not that we do not eat alms (Bokhari and Muslim). 301. Umar ibn Abi Salamah relates: I was a boy under the care of the. Holy Prophet, and my hand would wander around the bowl when eating. He directed me: Pronounce the name of Allah, eat with thy right hand and from whatever is in front of thee. This became my way of eating thereafter (Bokhari and Muslim). 302. This hadith is the same as No. 285. 303. Amr ibn Shuaib relates from his grandfather through his father that the Holy Prophet directed: Order your children to perform the salat when they are seven years old, and chastise them in respect of any fault in this behalf when they are ten, and at that age put them in separate beds (Abu. Daud). 304. Sabrah ibn Ma'abad Juhni relates that the Holy Prophet said:. Teach a boy the salat at seven years and chastise him if he commits a default at ten years (Abu Daud and Tirmidhi). Abu Daud's version is: Order a boy to perform the salat when he reaches seven years of age.