Choosing good property for zakat

عن أبي هُريرةَ رضي الله عنه، قال: قال رسولُ الله ﷺ: «أيُّها الناسُ، إن اللهَ طيِّبٌ لا يَقبَل إلا طَيِّبًا،وإن اللهَ أمَر المؤمنين بما أمر به المرسَلين، فقال: {يَا أَيُّهَا الرُّسُلُ كُلُوا مِنَ الطَّيِّبَاتِ وَاعْمَلُوا صَالِحًا} [المؤمنون: 51]، وقال: {يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا كُلُوا مِنْ طَيِّبَاتِ مَا رَزَقْنَاكُمْ} [البقرة: 172]، ثم ذكَر الرجُل يُطِيل السَّفَرَ أَشْعَثَ أَغْبَرَ، يَمُدُّ يَدَيْهِ إلى السماء: يا ربِّ، يا ربِّ، ومطعمُه حرامٌ، ومشرَبُه حرامٌ، ومَلبسُه حرامٌ، وغُذِيَ بالحرام، فأنَّى يُستجاب لذلك؟!»

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Abu Hurayrah narrated that God’s Messenger (peace be upon him) said:

1. People! [Know that] God is good and He only accepts what is good. 2. God has commanded the believers the same as He commanded messengers, as He says: ‘Messengers! Eat of that which is wholesome, and do good deeds: I certainly have full knowledge of all that you do’. (23: 51) And: ‘Believers, eat of the wholesome things We have provided for you’. (2: 172) 3. He then mentioned the case of a man who goes on a long travel, uncouth with dust on his body. He raises his hands to the sky and says, ‘My Lord! My Lord!’ Yet, his food is unlawfully earned; his drink is unlawfully earned; his clothes are unlawfully earned; and he was fed, when young, with what was unlawfully earned. How can such a supplication be answered?

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Abu ‘Abd al-Raḥmān ‘Abdullāh ibn ‘Umar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb ibn Nufayl

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Abu ‘Abd al-Raḥmān ‘Abdullāh ibn ‘Umar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb ibn Nufayl belonged to the ‘Adiy branch of the Quraysh. He embraced Islam when he was young. He migrated to Madinah with his father when he was still a child below the age of puberty. At the time of the Battle of Uḥud, he was too young to fight. His first military effort was the Encounter of the Moat, i.e. al-Khandaq. He also participated in the pledge under the tree. Zaynab bint Maẓ‘ūn, who was ‘Uthmān ibn Maẓ‘ūn’s sister, was his mother and the mother of his sister, Ḥafṣah the Mother of Believers. He narrated much useful information from the Prophet, and also from his father‘Umar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, Abu Bakr, ‘Uthmān, ‘Alī, Bilāl, Ṣuhayb and other companions of the Prophet. He issued many fatwas and narrated a large number of hadiths. He died in Year 74 AH 694 CE.