Reports on the begging that was approved for the one who does it

Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Zakah is not lawful for a rich person except in three cases: either he is in the path of Allah, or he is a wayfarer, or a neighbour of his was given zakah and he gave it to him as a gift."

It is narrated from Ata bin Yasar that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Sadaqah is not lawful for anyone except five people: a person who buys it with his own wealth, or a person who works on it (collecting it), or a wayfarer, or one who is in the path of Allah, or a person whose neighbour was given zakah and he gives it to him as a gift."

Sayyiduna Hubshi bin Junadah al-Saluli (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say, when a Bedouin came to him asking: "Asking is not lawful except in grinding poverty or a crushing debt."

Abu Ishaq said: A beggar asked Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar, Sayyiduna al-Hasan, Sayyiduna al-Husayn and Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Ja'far (may Allah be pleased with them all). They all said to him: If you are asking because of a crushing debt, or grinding poverty, or a painful blood-money (that you must pay), then sadaqah is lawful for you.

Sayyiduna Qabisah bin al-Mukhariq al-Hilali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I took on a financial burden (to settle a dispute), so I came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) to ask him about it. He said: "O Qabisah, stay until the sadaqah (wealth) comes to us, then we will order it for you." Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said to me: "Asking is not lawful except for one of three people: a man who has taken on a financial burden, for whom asking is lawful until he pays it off, and then he refrains (from asking); a man struck by a calamity that destroys his wealth, for whom asking is lawful until he obtains something to sustain his living, and then he refrains (from asking); and a man stricken by poverty, until three people of sound judgement from his tribe say: 'Indeed, so-and-so has been stricken by poverty,' then asking is lawful for him until he obtains something to sustain his living, and then he refrains (from asking). O Qabisah, any asking other than these is unlawful, and the one who does it is eating what is unlawful."

Al-Dahhak was asked about a man who travels while he is rich, and all that he had with him runs out on his journey and he becomes needy. He said: He is to be given from the sadaqah during his journey, because he is a wayfarer.