Forty hadiths on the virtue of charity
On the authority of Al-Harith Al-Ash'ari
The Prophet of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said
God Almighty commanded Yahya bin Zakariya, peace be upon them
In five words
To work with them
And to command the children of Israel to do them
He almost slowed down
And Jesus said to him
You have been commanded to do five words
And command the children of Israel to do them
Either you inform them
Or I inform them
And he said
My brother
I'm afraid if you beat me
To torture or humiliate me
He said
So Yahya gathered the children of Israel in Jerusalem
Until the mosque was full
So he sat on the honor
He thanked and praised God
Then he said
God Almighty commanded me with five words
To work with them
And I command you to do them
The first of them
That you worship God and do not associate anything with Him
It is like that
Like a man who bought a slave from his pure wealth with paper or gold
So he started working
He gives his crops to someone other than his master
Which of you would like it for his servant to be like that?
God Almighty created you and provided for you
So worship Him and do not associate anything with Him
And I command you to pray
God Almighty keeps His face focused on His servant’s face as long as he does not turn around
If you pray, do not turn around
And I command you to fast
It is like that
Like a man with a bundle of musk
In a group of them all he finds the scent of musk
The breath of a fasting person’s mouth is sweeter to God than the scent of musk
And I command you to give charity
It is like that
Like a man captured by the enemy
They pulled his hands to his neck
They brought him to behead him
And he said
May I redeem myself from you?
So he ransomed himself from them with little and much
Until he untied himself
I command you to remember God Almighty often
Even if it is like that
Like a man who was sought by the enemy, who quickly followed him
He came to a fortified fortress and barricaded himself in it
The servant is more immune than Satan
If it is in the remembrance of God Almighty
He said
The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said
And I command you to do five
God commanded me to do them
In the group
And hearing and obedience
And immigration
And jihad for the sake of God
For he is the one who leaves the group by a hand span
He has taken off the neck of Islam from his neck
Unless he comes back
And whoever calls on the pretext of ignorance
He is from the crouch of Hell
They said, O Messenger of God
Even if he fasts and prays
He said
Even if he fasts, even if he prays and claims to be a Muslim
So call Muslims by their names, as God Almighty has called them
Faithful Muslims
Servants of God Almighty
Narrated by Ahmed and Al-Tirmidhi
It was authenticated by Al-Albani