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صحيح البخاري
Bukhari
كتاب الهبةThe Book of Gifts and The Superiority of Giving Gifts and The Exhortation for Giving Gifts
بَابُ بِمَنْ يُبْدَأُ بِالْهَدِيَّةِ:Chapter. Who is to be given the gift first?
Hadith 2594
اُردوEn
وَقَالَ بَكْرٌ : عَنْ عَمْرٍو ، عَنْ بُكَيْرٍ ، عَنْ كُرَيْبٍ مَوْلَى ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ ، إِنَّ مَيْمُونَةَ زَوْجَ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ أَعْتَقَتْ وَلِيدَةً لَهَا ، فَقَالَ لَهَا : وَلَوْ وَصَلْتِ بَعْضَ أَخْوَالِكِ كَانَ أَعْظَمَ لِأَجْرِكِ " .
Narrated Maimuna, the wife of the Prophet (saws) that she manumitted her slave-girl and the Prophet (saws) said to her, "You would have got more reward if you had given the slave-girl to one of your maternal uncles."
Explanation & Benefits
Maulana Dawood Raz
Hadith Commentary:
It is understood from this that the foremost rightful recipients of gifts are one's close relatives and family members.
It is understood from this that the foremost rightful recipients of gifts are one's close relatives and family members.
Source: Sahih Bukhari: Commentary by Maulana Dawood Raz, Page: 2594
Shaykh Abdul Sattar al-Hammad
Hadith Commentary:
From this hadith, it is understood that the foremost recipients of gifts are close relatives and family members. Furthermore, if any relative is in need, then giving to them as a gift holds greater virtue than freeing a slave. Accordingly, in the narration of Sunan al-Kubra, the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) said:
“It would have been better if you had lightened the burden of your brother’s daughter who herds sheep.”
That is, instead of freeing this slave-girl, you should have given her to your brother so that she could serve him.
(Fath al-Bari: 5/269, and al-Sunan al-Kubra by al-Nasa’i: 1/181)
From this hadith, it is understood that the foremost recipients of gifts are close relatives and family members. Furthermore, if any relative is in need, then giving to them as a gift holds greater virtue than freeing a slave. Accordingly, in the narration of Sunan al-Kubra, the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) said:
“It would have been better if you had lightened the burden of your brother’s daughter who herds sheep.”
That is, instead of freeing this slave-girl, you should have given her to your brother so that she could serve him.
(Fath al-Bari: 5/269, and al-Sunan al-Kubra by al-Nasa’i: 1/181)
Source: Hidayat al-Qari: Commentary on Sahih Bukhari, Urdu, Page: 2594
