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Kin (dhawi al-Qurba), recipients of sadaqah
The kin are considered the most deserving people for the sadaqah gift because of the common blood relationship. When a
man is in need and some of his relatives are rich, naturally he looks to them for help because they are of one family. Also, it is
natural for a man to feel more sympathy and pain with his hard-pressed and needy relatives than with strangers. He is
humiliated by their degradation and elevated by their honor. Therefore, any well-to-do person who cuts off his kin from
assistance and lives in luxury while his relatives are in a state of misery is devoid of natural feeling or lacks belief and is far
away from goodness or piety. On the other hand, for one who maintains close links with his kin, his sustenance is assured
and his relationship is of beneficence to his kin.
Fiqh-us-Sunnah
Fiqh 3.100
Those Who Have Precedence for Receiving Sadaqah
One's children, family, and relatives have precedence over others. It is not permissible to give sadaqah to a stranger when
you and your dependents are in need of it.
It is related from Jabir that the Messenger of Allah, upon whom be peace, said: "When one of you is poor, he starts with
himself. If anything is left, he spends it on his dependents. If anything is (still left) then on his relatives, and then, if more is
left, he spends it here and there."…..
Fiqh-us-Sunnah
Fiqh 3.79
Preference in Giving Zakah to Husband or Relativee
A poor husband is entitled to receive zakah from his well-to-do wife, even though she is not supposed to support him. Her
reward for giving it to him is more than if she were to give it to strangers. Abu Sa'id al-Khudri reported that Zainab, the wife of
Ibn Mas'ud, said: "O Prophet of Allah! Indeed you have ordered us today to give away sadaqah, and I have some jewelry
which I wanted to give away as sadaqah. But Ibn Mas'ud claims that he and his children deserve it more than someone else."
The Prophet, upon whom be peace, responded: "Ibn Mas'ud is right. Your husband and your children are more deserving."
This is related by al-Bukhari. AshShafi, Ibn al-Mundhir, Abu Yusuf, Muhammad, the Zahiriyyah, and one of the reports by
Ahmad hold the same view. Abu Hanifah and other scholars differ, saying that the wife is not allowed to give any sadaqah to
her husband. They maintain that Zainab's hadith is concerned with voluntary sadaqah and not with the obligatory one. Malik
holds that it is not permissible for a husband to spend the sadaqah he receives from his wife on her. Spending it on others is
all right. Most scholars say that one's brothers, sisters, paternal uncles and aunts, and maternal uncles and aunts may
receive zakah if they are eligible. Their opinion is based on the hadith which says: "Sadaqah for the poor is rewarded as one
sadaqah, as two: [one but in the case of a relative it is consideredreward for] blood tie and [the other reward for] the
sadaqah [itself]." This is related by Ahmad, an-Nasa'i, and at-Tirmidhi. The latter grades it hassan.
Fiqh-us-Sunnah
Bidding Farewell
Bidding Farewell to One's Relatives, Asking them for Prayers, and Praying
for Them
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t is reported from Abu Huraraih that the Prophet, peace be upon him, said, "When one of you
intends to go on a journey, he should bid farewell to his brothers, for Allah will make their prayers a
means of good."
It is sunnah that the members of the family, as well as the friends and those who see the traveller
off should pray for him as in the following prayer transmitted from the Prophet.
Salim reported that when someone wanted to leave for a journey 'Ibn Umar would say to him,
"Come over to me so that I may bid you farewell as the Prophet, peace upon him, used to bid us
farewell," and that he used to say, "To Allah I commend your din (Islam), your trust (That is his
family, those he leaves behind, and his property), and the conclusion of your deeds."'…..
Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith
Hadith 8.10 Narrated by
Abu Sufyan
That Heraclius sent for him and said, "What did he, i.e. the Prophet, order you?" I replied, "He orders us to offer prayers; to
give alms; to be chaste; and to keep good relations with our relatives."
ISL Quran Subjects
Relatives
1. (Also see) Blood Relations, Close and Dear Ones, Family, Kindred, Relations
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