102 – Ahmad ibn Mani‘ related to us; he said: ‘Abbād ibn ‘Abbād al-Muhallabī narrated to us, from Wāṣil, from Yaḥyā ibn ‘Aqīl, from Yaḥyā ibn Ya‘mar, from Abū Dharr, from the Prophet ﷺ, who said:

“Every morning each joint of the child of Adam is obligated to offer a ṣadaqah (charitable deed). Greeting those one meets is a ṣadaqah; enjoining what is right is a ṣadaqah; forbidding what is wrong is a ṣadaqah; removing something harmful from the road is a ṣadaqah; and marital intimacy with one’s spouse is also a ṣadaqah.”

They asked, “O Messenger of Allah, does a person satisfy his desire and still receive the reward of ṣadaqah?” He replied, “Tell me: if he were to satisfy it in a forbidden way, would he not be sinful? Likewise, when he does so lawfully, it counts as a ṣadaqah.

“And two rak‘ahs (units) of the mid-morning duḥā prayer suffice for all of that.”