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السنن الكبرى للبيهقي
Sunan al-Kubra al-Bayhaqi
كتاب النفقات
Book of Maintenance
باب: {لينفق ذو سعة من سعته ومن قدر عليه رزقه فلينفق مما آتاه الله}
Chapter: "Let a man of wealth spend according to his wealth, and he whose provision is restricted, let him spend from what Allah has given him"
Bayhaqi Q15702 — "Let a man of wealth spend according to his wealth"
اُردوEn
قَالَ الشَّافِعِيُّ رَضِيَ اللهُ عَنْهُ فِي نَفَقَةِ الْمُقْتِرِ: إِنَّهَا مُدٌّ بِمُدِّ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فِي كُلِّ يَوْمٍ مِنْ طَعَامِ الْبَلَدِ قَالَ: وَإِنَّمَا جَعَلْتُ الْفَرْضَ مُدًّا بِالدَّلَالَةِ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فِي دَفْعِهِ إِلَى الَّذِي أَصَابَ أَهْلَهُ فِي شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ عَرَقًا فِيهِ خَمْسَةَ عَشَرَ صَاعًا لِسِتِّينَ مِسْكِينًا فَكَانَ ذَلِكَ مُدًّا مُدًّا لِكُلِّ مِسْكِينٍ، والْعَرَقُ خَمْسَةَ عَشَرَ صَاعًا عَلَى ذَلِكَ يُعْمَلُ لِيَكُونَ أَرْبَعَةَ أَعْرَاقٍ وَسْقًا وَلَكِنَّ الَّذِي حَدَّثَهُ أَدْخَلَ الشَّكَّ فِي الْحَدِيثِ خَمْسَةَ عَشَرَ أَوْ عِشْرِينَ صَاعًا.
Imam al-Shafi'i (may Allah be pleased with him) said regarding the maintenance owed by a (husband) of limited means: "It is one mudd per day, by the mudd of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), from the (common) food of the town."
He said: "I set this obligatory amount at one mudd on the basis of the evidence from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) regarding the man who had intercourse with his wife during the month of Ramadan: he (peace and blessings be upon him) gave him a basket containing fifteen sa' for (feeding) sixty poor people, which comes to one mudd for each poor person. The basket was of fifteen sa'; it used to be made to that measure so that four baskets would make one wasq. However, the one who narrated the hadith to them introduced a doubt into it: whether it was fifteen sa' or twenty sa'."
He said: "I set this obligatory amount at one mudd on the basis of the evidence from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) regarding the man who had intercourse with his wife during the month of Ramadan: he (peace and blessings be upon him) gave him a basket containing fifteen sa' for (feeding) sixty poor people, which comes to one mudd for each poor person. The basket was of fifteen sa'; it used to be made to that measure so that four baskets would make one wasq. However, the one who narrated the hadith to them introduced a doubt into it: whether it was fifteen sa' or twenty sa'."
