مشكوة المصابيح
Mishkat al-Masabih
كتاب الزكاة
The Book of Zakat
(إِطْعَامُ الْحَيَوَانِ أَيْضًا صَدَقَةٌ)
(Feeding a living being is also charity)
Hadith 1946
وَعَنْ أَنَسٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «أَفْضَلُ الصَّدَقَةِ أَنْ تُشْبِعَ كَبِدًا جَائِعًا» . رَوَاهُ الْبَيْهَقِيُّ فِي شُعَبِ الْإِيمَانِ
He reported God’s messenger as saying, “The most excellent sadaqa consists in your satisfying a hungry stomach.”* Baihaqi transmitted it in Shu’ab al-iman. * Literally “liver.”
