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O Allah make the sustenance of the Āl of Muḥammad just enough for them

to subsist. 1

The proponents of this view aver that it is a known fact that this supplication did

not eventually have a bearing on all the Banū Hāshim and the Banū al-Muṭṭalib,

for there were rich and influential people among them; even till today they are

found among them.

As for his wives, their sustenance was just about enough for them to subsist;

whatever wealth they would receive they would spend it in avenues of charity

and would only keep for themselves what was enough for their subsistence. 2

The answer to this proof is the very same as the answer to the previous proof, i.e.

expression/explicitness takes precedence over impression/implicitness.

Proof 3:

The following narration of ʿĀʾishah J:

ما شبع آل محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم منذ قدم المدينة من طعام البر ثالث ليال تباعا حتى قبض.‏

Since they came to Madīnah, the Āl of Nabī H did not eat wheat to its

fill for three consecutive days till he passed away. 3

1 The narration of Abū Hurayrah I which appears in: Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī: chapter of Riqāq (heart

softeners); sub-chapter regarding how Nabī H and his Ṣaḥābah M would live and how they

shunned this world: ḥadīth no. 6095; Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim: Chapter of Zakāh: sub-chapter regarding have

enough (for the fulfilment of one’s needs) and being content: ḥadīth no. 1055.

2 Jilāʾ al-Afhām p. 216.

3 Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī: chapter of Riqāq (heart softeners); sub-chapter regarding how Nabī H and his

Ṣaḥābah M would live and how they shunned this world: ḥadīth no. 6089; Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim: Chapter of

disinclination from the world and heart softeners: sub-chapter regarding the world being the prison

of a believer and the paradise of a disbeliever: ḥadīth no. 2970.

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