His saying: "And they withhold small kindnesses"

Sayyiduna Abdullah (bin Mas'ud) (may Allah be pleased with him) said regarding the saying of Allah Almighty, "And they withhold al-ma'un (small kindnesses)" [Al-Ma'un: 7]: It is what people lend to one another among themselves: the axe, the cooking pot, the bucket and things like them.

Sayyiduna Abdullah (bin Mas'ud) (may Allah be pleased with him) said: It is what people lend to one another among themselves.

Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said that what is meant by the saying of Allah Almighty, "And they withhold al-ma'un" [Al-Ma'un: 7], is the obligatory zakah.

And Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: (It is) lending household goods.

Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Al-ma'un means zakah.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: It is the wealth whose due is not given.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: It is (the wealth) whose due is not paid.

Sa'd (bin Iyad) narrates from the Companions of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) that they said: Al-ma'un is withholding the axe, the cooking pot and the bucket.

Sayyidah Umm Atiyyah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: What is meant by it is al-mihnah (the tools of household work and service).

Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Al-ma'un is withholding the axe, the cooking pot and the bucket.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: Its people have not come yet.

Ibrahim said: (It is) the cooking pot and the hand-mill. And some of them said: What is meant by it is the axe.

Al-Dahhak said: What is meant by it is zakah.

Sayyiduna Abdullah (bin Mas'ud) (may Allah be pleased with him) said: What is meant is the cooking pot and the bucket.

Something similar is reported from Sayyiduna Abdullah (bin Mas'ud) (may Allah be pleased with him).

Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: It is zakah.

Something similar to the hadith of Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) is also reported from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both).

Yahya bin al-Jazzar said that Abu al-Ubaydayn asked Sayyiduna Abdullah (bin Mas'ud) (may Allah be pleased with him) about al-ma'un. He said: It is the axe, the cooking pot and the bucket.

It is narrated from Ibn al-Hanafiyyah that what is meant by al-ma'un is zakah.

Al-Zuhri said: Al-ma'un, in the language of Quraysh, is wealth.

Bassam said: I asked Ikrimah about al-ma'un. He said: It is the axe, the cooking pot and the bucket.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: What is meant by it is household goods.

And Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: It is zakah.

Al-Zuhri said: What is meant by al-ma'un is the obligatory zakah.