This does not preclude calling someone who has never had a child childless.

A similar example is his statement (peace and blessings be upon him): “Whom do you consider bankrupt among you?” They replied, “Someone who has neither money nor possessions.” He said, “The bankrupt person is one who comes on the Day of Resurrection with good deeds like mountains, but who has slapped this person, struck that person, and shed another’s blood. This person then takes some of his good deeds, and that person takes some of his good deeds…” (1), as the hadith continues.

Another example is his statement: “The poor person is not the one who goes about begging and is sent away with a morsel or two, or a date or two. Rather, the poor person is one who does not ask people and whose need goes unnoticed, so that he is not given charity” (2).

This hour—the last hour after ‘Asr—is held in esteem by all religious communities (3). Among the People of the Book (4), it is regarded as the hour when supplications are answered. This is something they have no motive to alter or distort, and the believers among them have acknowledged it.

As for those who say that this hour shifts, they have sought thereby to reconcile the hadiths, as has also been suggested concerning the Night of Decree. This view, however, is not strong, for the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said concerning the Night of Decree: “Seek it when five nights remain, when seven remain, and when nine remain” (5), whereas no report has come