- “ Spend (in charity) out of the sustenance that We have bestowed on you before that time when death will come to someone, and he shall say: “O my Lord! If only you would grant me reprieve for a little while, then I would give in charity, and be among the righteous .” – (Quran, 63:10)
- “ Those who (in charity) spend of their goods by night and by day, in secret and in public have their reward with their Rabb (only God and Sustainer). On them shall be no fear nor shall they grieve. ” (Qur‘an, 2:274)
- The Prophet Muhammad (Sallallaahu Alaihi Wasalaam) said: “ The believer’s shade on the Day of Resurrection will be his charity .” ( Al-Tirmidhi, Hadith 604)
- The Prophet (Sallallaahu Alaihi Wasalaam) said: “Give charity without delay, for it stands in the way of calamity. ” ( Al-Tirmidhi, Hadith 589)
- The Prophet (Sallallaahu Alaihi Wasalaam) said “Sadaqah extinguishes sin as water extinguishes fire.” (Ahmad, Tirmidhi, and Ibn Majah)
- The Prophet (Sallallaahu Alaihi Wasalaam) said: “ The believer’s shade on the Day of Resurrection will be his Sadaqah. ” (Ahmad)
- The Prophet (Sallallaahu Alaihi Wasalaam) said: “ Whoever gives charity equal to date from good (halal) earnings – for Allaah does not accept anything but that which is good – Allaah will take it in His right hand and tend it for the one who gave it as any one of you tends his foal until it becomes like a mountain. ” (Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 1344; Muslim, 1014.)
- The Prophet (Sallallaahu Alaihi Wasalaam) said: “ There is no day on which the people get up but two angels come down and one of them says, ‘O Allaah, give in compensation to the one who spends (in charity),’ and the other says, ‘O Allaah, destroy the one who withholds.’ ” (Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 1374; Muslim, 1010.)
- The Prophet (Peace be upon him) said,“While a person was in an open area of land, he heard a voice in a cloud above him say. “water the garden of so-and-so!” So the cloud immediately departed and started pouring its rainout on a rocky plain. A large crevice in the rocks collected all of this water. So the man followed the water (in its course), and he found a man standing in his garden, using an instrument to direct this water in different directions (to irrigate his garden). He said to him, ‘O servant of Allah! What is your name?’ The man said ‘So-and-so,’ the same name that he had heard in the clouds! Then the man asked him, ‘O servant of Allah! Why are you asking me my name?’ So he responded. ‘I heard a voice in the clouds- the same clouds that this water came from- saying, “water the garden of so-and-so” with your name. What do you interpret this as (i.e. why do you think this happened )?’ So he said, ‘If you say this (i.e. if what you say occurred), then (the reason for this is that) I see what (crops) come out of it (this garden), and I give one third in charity, and I eat with my family one-third of it, and I return one-third of it (to cultivate more crops) ” and in another narration, it is reported that he said, … and I give one-third of it to the poor, and the beggars, and the wayfarers .’ [Muslim (4/2288)]
