Forty hadiths on the virtue of charity On the authority of Abu Hurairah, may God be pleased with him, he said The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said A dinar you spent for the sake of God And a dinar I spent on his neck And a dinar that I gave in charity to a poor person And a dinar that you spent on your family The greatest of them is the reward What you spent on your family Narrated by Muslim