in the cause of Allah.” Reported by Muslim.

297 – Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: I asked, “Messenger of Allah, shall I have a reward if I spend on the children of Abū Salamah, seeing that I will not leave them just like this or like that (1)—they are my sons?” He replied, “Yes, you will be rewarded for whatever you spend on them.” Agreed upon.

298 – Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated—in the lengthy tradition cited at the beginning of the book under the Chapter on Intention—that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to him, “You will never spend anything, seeking thereby the Face of Allah, without being rewarded for it, even what you place in your wife’s mouth (2).” Agreed upon.

299 – Abū Masʿūd al-Badri (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Prophet ﷺ said, “If a man spends on his family while counting it as an act of devotion (3), it will be recorded for him as charity.” Agreed upon.

300 – ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ declared, “It is enough of a sin for a man that he neglects those whom he is responsible to feed.” This is an authentic hadith reported by Abū Dāwūd and others.

Muslim recorded a report with a similar meaning: “It is enough of a sin for a man to withhold sustenance from those whose maintenance he controls.”

1/301 – Abū Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) related that the Prophet ﷺ said, “No day dawns upon the servants except that two angels descend: one says, ‘O Allah, grant the spender a replacement,’ and the other says, ‘O Allah, give the one who withholds destruction.’” Agreed upon.

2/301 – And from him, from the Prophet ﷺ: “The upper hand is better than the lower hand (4), and start with those …”