Those who disliked offerings to the House and preferred charity instead

Qays said that a woman said: I was with the Mother of the Believers, Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her), when a woman came to her with her jewellery and said: "I have brought this as an offering for the House (of Allah)." Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) said to her: "If you had given it in the way of Allah, to orphans and the needy (that would have been better). Indeed, this House is given to and spent on from the treasures of Allah."

Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: That I give this ring of mine in charity is dearer to me than that I give a thousand as an offering to the Ka'bah.

Al-Qasim bin Muhammad said: That I give one dirham in charity in the way of Allah is dearer to me than that I give a hundred thousand dirhams as an offering to the House of Allah. Even if a whole valley of wealth flowed to me, I would not give a single dirham of it as an offering to the House.

A man asked Salim about giving an offering to the Ka'bah. He said: "The Ka'bah has no need of your offering. Give it to a poor or needy person, and feed him a piece of bread."