577 — “Each morning, a charity is due for every joint of one of you. Every declaration of Allah’s transcendence is charity; every praise of Allah is charity; every declaration of His oneness is charity; every declaration of His greatness is charity; enjoining what is right is charity; forbidding what is wrong is charity; and the two rakʿahs that one performs in the forenoon suffice for all of that.”

Muslim (2/158), Abū Dāwūd (2/249), and Aḥmad (5/167–168) recorded it from Abū al-Aswad al-Duʾalī, from Abū Dharr, who attributed it to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him. See the preceding discussion under, “Has Allah not made for you...?” It also has a corroborating narration with the wording: “In a human being there are three hundred and sixty joints,” which has likewise preceded.

There is another with the wording: “For every limb of a human being there is an act of worship”—and in one narration: “Each morning, a charity is due every day for every limb of the son of Adam.” A man among the people said, “Who can manage this?” He replied, “Enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong are acts of worship; carrying a burden on behalf of a weak person is an act of worship; and every step one of you takes toward a prayer is an act of worship.”

In al-Majmaʿ (3/104), he said: “Abū Yaʿlā, al-Bazzār, and al-Ṭabarānī in al-Kabīr and al-Ṣaghīr narrated something similar from Ibn ʿAbbās. Al-Ṣaghīr adds: ‘The two rakʿahs of the forenoon suffice for all of that.’ The narrators of Abū Yaʿlā are narrators of the Ṣaḥīḥ collections.”

I say: It appears in Musnad Abī Yaʿlā (2/640–641) with the first wording, but it contains al-Walīd ibn Abī Thawr, who is weak. He then narrated it with the other wording through an authentic chain. The version in al-Ṣaghīr has already appeared with the wording: “For every joint.”