Mu’āwiyah bin Abī Sufyān on charity
8 November 2024 · 6 Jumādā I 1446 AH
عَمْرُو بنُ وَاقِدٍ: حَدَّثَنَا يُوْنُسُ بنُ مَيْسَرَةَ: سَمِعْتُ مُعَاوِيَةَ يَقُوْلُ عَلَى مِنْبَرِ دِمَشْقَ: >تَصَدَّقُوا، وَلَا يَقُلْ أَحَدُكُم: إِنِّيْ مُقِلٌّ، فَإِنَّ صَدقَةَ المُقِلِّ أَفْضَلُ مِنْ صَدَقَةِ الغَنِيِّ<
Translation
‘Amr bin Wāqid said: Yūnus bin Maysarah narrated to us, saying: I heard Mu’āwiyah [d. 60H] (may Allāh be pleased with him) say on the pulpit (minbar) of Dimashq (Damascus) said: “Give charity, and none of you must say: ‘I am constrained (or tight fisted),’ for the charity of the one who is constrained is better than the charity of the one who is wealthy.”
Translated by Mohammed Manna (India)
Takhrīj
• Tārīkh ad-Dimashq (59/163)
• Siyar A’lām an-Nubalā' (3/151)
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