Maintenance

Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Help comes from Allah Almighty according to the burden, and patience comes from Allah Almighty according to the measure of the trial."
Al-Bazzar recorded it. Its chain contains Tariq bin Ammar; al-Bukhari (may Allah have mercy on him) says: His hadith is not corroborated. The rest of its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih.

Sayyiduna Amr bin Umayyah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) came to him in the market while he was bargaining over a cloak. Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) asked: "O Amr! What is this?" He replied: "It is a cloak which I have bought, and I will give it in charity." Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said to him: "Then do so." Later he came to him again and asked: "O Amr! What became of that cloak?" He replied: "I gave it in charity." Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) asked: "To whom?" He replied: "To (my wife) Sukhaylah bint Ubaydah." Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Did you not say that you would give it in charity?" Sayyiduna Amr bin Umayyah (may Allah be pleased with him) replied: "Yes! But I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: 'Whatever you give to these women (i.e. your wives) will be charity for you.'" The narrator says: Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "O Amr! Do not attribute a lie to the Messenger of Allah." Sayyiduna Amr bin Umayyah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "By Allah! I will not part from you until we go to the Mother of the Believers, Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her)." He said: "O Amr! Do not attribute a lie to the Messenger of Allah." They asked permission to enter upon Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her). Sayyiduna Amr bin Umayyah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "I ask you by Allah: did you hear the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: 'Whatever you people give to these women (i.e. your wives) is charity for you'?" Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) replied: "O Allah, yes! O Allah, yes!" Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said (addressing himself): "How was I unaware of this? Bargaining in the markets kept me heedless."
Al-Bazzar recorded it. Ahmad recorded from him this narration: "Whatever a man gives to his wife is charity." The chains of both contain Muhammad bin Abi Humayd, who is da'if (weak).

Sayyiduna Amr bin Umayyah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: Sayyiduna Uthman bin Affan (may Allah be pleased with him) or perhaps Sayyiduna Abdul Rahman bin Awf (may Allah be pleased with him) (this doubt is from a later narrator) passed by a man with a cloak, and they found the cloak expensive. Then Sayyiduna Amr bin Umayyah (may Allah be pleased with him) passed by him, bought the cloak, and gave it to his wife Sukhaylah bint Ubaydah bin al-Harith bin al-Muttalib to wear. Later Sayyiduna Uthman al-Ghani (may Allah be pleased with him) or Sayyiduna Abdul Rahman passed by him and asked: "What became of the cloak you bought?" Sayyiduna Amr (may Allah be pleased with him) replied: "I have given it in charity to Sukhaylah bint Ubaydah (i.e. my wife)." He asked: "Is whatever you do for your wife charity?" Sayyiduna Amr bin Umayyah (may Allah be pleased with him) replied: "I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say this." That man mentioned before the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) what Sayyiduna Amr (may Allah be pleased with him) had said, and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Amr spoke the truth. Whatever (good) you do for your wife will be charity upon them."
Abu Ya'la and al-Tabarani recorded it. All the narrators of al-Tabarani are thiqat (trustworthy).

Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The first thing to be placed in the Scale of a servant will be what he spent on his family."
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat. Its chain contains a narrator whom I do not know.

Sayyiduna al-Irbad bin Sariyah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "When a man gives his wife water to drink, he will be rewarded for that too." The narrator says: I came to my wife, gave her water to drink, and told her what I had heard from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him).
Ahmad recorded it, and al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Kabir and al-Mu'jam al-Awsat. Its chain contains Sufyan bin Husayn, whose narrations from al-Zuhri contain weakness, and this narration is one of them. Narrations about spending on one's family, children and others have already passed at the end of the Book of Zakah.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "It is enough of a sin for a man that he neglects those whose provision is his responsibility."
Al-Tabarani recorded it as a narration of Isma'il bin Ayyash from Musa bin Uqbah, and Isma'il's narrations from the people of the Hijaz are da'if (weak).

Sayyiduna Ka'b bin Ujrah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) passed by me. The Companions of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) saw my physical strength and vigour and said: "O Messenger of Allah! If only this were in the path of Allah!" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "If he has gone out to earn for his young children, then he is in the path of Allah. If he has gone out to earn for his elderly, aged parents, then he is in the path of Allah. If he has gone out to earn for himself so as to keep himself from begging, then he is in the path of Allah. But if he has gone out for showing off and boasting, then this is the path of Satan."
Al-Tabarani recorded it in all three of his books, and the narrators of al-Mu'jam al-Kabir are the narrators of the Sahih.

Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "One who earns for his parents, so as to provide for them or to make them independent of people, is counted as being in the path of Allah. One who earns for himself, so as to make himself independent (of people) or to keep himself from (begging from) people, is counted as being in the path of Allah. And one who earns to amass more is in the path of Satan."
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat. Its chain contains Ishaq bin Sayyid, who is da'if (weak). The hadith narrated by Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) will come in the chapter on righteousness and maintaining family ties, in which it is mentioned that one who earns for his children and siblings is likewise.

It is reported about Sayyiduna Abdul Hamid Abu Amr (may Allah be pleased with him) that Fatimah bint Qays (may Allah be pleased with her) was his wife. That man divorced her, and she came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "She will not receive maintenance."
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat. Its chain contains Muhammad bin Khalid bin Abdullah, who is da'if (weak); Ibn Hibban declared him thiqah (trustworthy) and said: He makes mistakes and narrates contrary to (other narrators).

Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) and Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) say: A woman who has been given three divorces shall receive housing and maintenance (from her former husband).
Al-Tabarani recorded it, and its chain is munqati' (broken).

It is reported about Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that he was asked about the pregnant woman and the widow, and he said: "We used to give her maintenance."
Al-Tabarani recorded it, and its narrators are thiqat (trustworthy).

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) narrates: A man divorced his wife, and the woman came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "You will not receive maintenance or housing."
Al-Bazzar recorded it. Its chain contains Ibrahim bin Isma'il bin Abi Habibah, who is matruk (abandoned).