Sahih al-Bukhari 7197
The ruler calling his employees to account
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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدٌ أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدَةُ حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ عُرْوَةَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ أَبِي حُمَيْدٍ السَّاعِدِيِّ
أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ اسْتَعْمَلَ ابْنَ الأُتُبِيَّةِ عَلَى صَدَقَاتِ بَنِي سُلَيْمٍ، فَلَمَّا جَاءَ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ وَحَاسَبَهُ قَالَ: هَذَا الَّذِي لَكُمْ، وَهَذِهِ هَدِيَّةٌ أُهْدِيَتْ لِي. فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ: «فَهَلَّا جَلَسْتَ فِي بَيْتِ أَبِيكَ وَبَيْتِ أُمِّكَ حَتَّى تَأْتِيَكَ هَدِيَّتُكَ إِنْ كُنْتَ صَادِقًا؟» ثُمَّ قَامَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ فَخَطَبَ النَّاسَ، وَحَمِدَ اللَّهَ وَأَثْنَى عَلَيْهِ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: «أَمَّا بَعْدُ، فَإِنِّي أَسْتَعْمِلُ رِجَالًا مِنْكُمْ عَلَى أُمُورٍ مِمَّا وَلَّانِي اللَّهُ، فَيَأْتِي أَحَدُكُمْ فَيَقُولُ: هَذَا لَكُمْ، وَهَذِهِ هَدِيَّةٌ أُهْدِيَتْ لِي. فَهَلَّا جَلَسَ فِي بَيْتِ أَبِيهِ وَبَيْتِ أُمِّهِ حَتَّى تَأْتِيَهُ هَدِيَّتُهُ إِنْ كَانَ صَادِقًا؟ فَوَاللَّهِ لَا يَأْخُذُ أَحَدٌ مِنْهَا شَيْئًا» قَالَ هِشَامٌ: بِغَيْرِ حَقِّهِ «إِلَّا جَاءَ اللَّهَ يَحْمِلُهُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ، أَلَا فَلَأَعْرِفَنَّ مَا جَاءَ اللَّهَ رَجُلٌ بِبَعِيرٍ لَهُ رُغَاءٌ، أَوْ بِبَقَرَةٍ لَهَا خُوَارٌ، أَوْ شَاةٍ تَيْعَرُ». ثُمَّ رَفَعَ يَدَيْهِ حَتَّى رَأَيْتُ بَيَاضَ إِبْطَيْهِ، وَقَالَ: «أَلَا هَلْ بَلَّغْتُ؟»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad
- ʿAbdah
- Hishām b. ʿUrwah
- his father
- Abū Ḥumayd al-Sāʿidī
The Prophet ﷺ employed Ibn al-Utbiyya to collect Zakat from Bani Sulaym, and when he returned (with the money) to Messenger of Allah ﷺ the Prophet ﷺ called him to account, and he said, "This ˹amount˺ is for you, and this was given to me as a present." Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Why don't you stay at your father's house or your mother's house to see whether you will be given gifts or not, if you are telling the truth?" Then Messenger of Allah ﷺ stood up and addressed the people, and after glorifying and praising Allah, he said: "As to what follows, I employ some men from among you for some job which Allah has placed in my charge, and then one of you comes to me and says, 'This ˹amount˺ is for you and this is a gift given to me.' Why doesn't he stay at the house of his father or the house of his mother and see whether he will be given gifts or not if he was telling the truth by Allah, none of you takes anything of ˹the Zakat˺ for himself unlawfully but he will meet Allah on the Day of Resurrection carrying it on his neck! I do not want to see any of you carrying a grunting camel or a mooing cow or a bleating sheep on meeting Allah." Then the Prophet ﷺ raised both his hands till I saw the whiteness of his armpits, and said, "Lo! Haven't I conveyed Allah's Message?"
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Sahih Muslim 1832bSunan Abi Dawud 2946al-Mu'jam al-Saghir 1149al-Mu'jam al-Saghir 839Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 34220Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 7006
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 60 AH, end of Muʿāwiyah's caliphate, or the beginning of Yazīd's caliphateأَبُو حُمَيْدٍ السَّاعِدِيُّصحابيعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), well-known (mashhūr)d. 91 AH, or 92, or 93 AH, or 94 AH, or 95 AH, or 99 AH, or 100 AH, or 101 AHأَبِيهِثقة فقيه مشهورعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. 145, or: 146 AH, or: 147 AH, also said: 144 AHهِشَامُ بْنُ عُرْوَةَثقة فقيه ربما دلسحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 186 AH or 187 AH or 188 AHعَبْدَةُثقة ثبتأخبرنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 225 AH or 227 AHمُحَمَّدٌثقة ثبتحدثنا
- a mountain of memorization and the leader of the world in the comprehension of hadith (jabal al-ḥifẓ wa-imām al-dunyā fī fiqh al-ḥadīth)d. 256 AHالْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث
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Commentaries
Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)
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