118 – The second narration: Abū Dharr (may Allah be pleased with him) also reported that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Each morning every one of your joints owes an act of charity: every tasbīḥah (saying ‘Subḥān Allah’) is charity, every taḥmīdah (‘al-ḥamdu lillāh’) is charity, every tahlīlah (‘lā ilāha illā Allah’) is charity, every takbīrah (‘Allāhu akbar’) is charity; enjoining what is right is charity, and forbidding what is wrong is charity. Two rakʿahs that one prays in the mid-morning suffice for all that.” Reported by Muslim. The word salāmā—pronounced with ḍammah on the sīn, a light lām, and fatḥah on the mīm—means “joint.”

[Explanation]
The author (may Allah have mercy on him), in the chapter on the many avenues to goodness, relates from Abū Dharr (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet ﷺ said, “Each morning every one of your salāmā requires a charity.” Salāmā are the bones, or more precisely the joints of the bones; meaning that every day a person is responsible for giving charity on behalf of every limb and every joint. Scholars say the human body contains three hundred and sixty joints, large and small, so each person owes three hundred and sixty acts of charity every day.

These acts of charity are not confined to monetary giving; they are comprehensive. Every avenue of goodness is charity: every tahlīlah, every takbīrah, every tasbīḥah, every taḥmīdah is charity; enjoining right is charity; forbidding wrong is charity. Indeed, the Prophet ﷺ said, “When you help a man with his mount, lifting him onto it, or raise his belongings for him…”