9 – The report shows that sources of livelihood differ in purity and vileness, in nobility and baseness, and that a person should pursue what is elevated and avoid what is lowly.

10 – In the version recorded by Aḥmad and the compilers of the Sunan—whose transmitters are reliable—the Prophet ﷺ said to the cupper about his wage: aʿlif-hu nāḍiḥaka ("Give it as fodder to your draught camel"). This indicates that when a cupper is already financially secure, he should rid himself of that income by spending it in ways removed from his own living costs and those of his family. Rather, he should expend it on his animals or channel it into some beneficial, non-religious project—not because such earnings are legally disliked, but in pursuit of loftier conduct and avoidance of what is base.

Shaykh al-Islām said: "Dubious earnings ought to be directed to what brings the least personal benefit: the farther, then the nearer—first what enters the stomach, then what touches the exterior such as clothing, and then what is only incidental, like riding animals—just as the Prophet ﷺ instructed the cupper to feed his earnings to his slave and his draught camel."