عن عبدِ الله بنِ مُعاويةَ رضي الله عنه ، قال: قال النبيُّ ﷺ:«ثلاثٌ مَن فعَلهنَّ فقد طَعِمَ طَعْمَ الإيمانِ:مَن عبَدَ اللهَ وحدَه، وأنه لا إلهَ إلا اللهُ،وأعطى زكاةَ ماله طيِّبةً بها نفْسُهُ، رافدةً عليه كلَّ عام،ولا يُعطي الهَرِمةَ، ولا الدَّرِنةَ، ولا المريضةَ، ولا الشَّرَطَ اللئيمةَ؛ولكنْ مِن وسَطِ أموالكم؛ فإنَّ اللهَ لم يَسألْكم خيرَه، ولم يأمُرْكم بشرِّه»
‘Abdullāh ibn Mu‘āwiyah narrated that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said:
1. Whoever does three things will experience the taste of faith. 2. To worship God alone [believing] that there is no deity other than God; 3. To give the zakat due on his property willingly and cheerfully, as it becomes due every year; 4. Not to give [in zakat] an old animal, or one with scabies, or a sickly one, or a small unwanted one; 5. But choose from among the average of your property. God has neither required you to give the best, nor told you to choose the worst.
Related by Abu Dāwūd, 1582.
Truly righteous is he who believes in God, the Last Day, the angels, the Book, and the prophets; and gives his money, much as he may cherish it, to his kinsfolk, orphans, the needy, a stranded wayfarer, beggars, and for the freeing of slaves.
(2: 177)
Believers, spend on others out of the good things you have earned, and out of that which We bring forth for you from the earth. Do not choose for your spending the inferior things which you yourselves would not accept without turning your eyes away in disdain. Know that God is free of all want, ever to be praised.
(2: 267)
You will never attain to true piety unless you spend on others out of what you dearly cherish.
(3: 92)
For a certainty, God does not forgive that partners should be associated with Him, but He forgives any lesser sin to whomever He wills. He who associates partners with God has indeed gone far astray.
(4: 116)
What prevents their offerings from being accepted from them is that they have disbelieved in God and His Messenger, and they only come to prayer with reluctance, and never donate anything [for a righteous cause] without being resentful.
(9: 54)
