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the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace:
“Allah is indeed Generous and loves generosity.”
The scholars said: In Arabic, al-jawād means one who gives abundantly. One says: jāda al-rajulu (the man gave generously); the present tense is yajūdu and the verbal noun is jūd. Such a man is jawād (generous).
Abū ʿAmr ibn al-ʿAlāʾ said:
رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم:
«إن الله جواد يُحبُّ الجود»
وقال أهل العلم: الجواد في كلام العرب معناه الكثير العطاء،
يقال منه:
جاد الرجل يجود جودًا فهو جواد.
قال أبو عمرو بن العلاء: