Chapters on Righteousness And Maintaining Good Relations With Relatives
Jāmiʿ at-Tirmidhī 1966
أَفْضَلُ الدِّينَارِ دِينَارٌ يُنْفِقُهُ الرَّجُلُ عَلَى عِيَالِهِ وَدِينَارٌ يُنْفِقُهُ الرَّجُلُ عَلَى دَابَّتِهِ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ وَدِينَارٌ يُنْفِقُهُ الرَّجُلُ عَلَى أَصْحَابِهِ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ
afḍalu ad-dīnāri dīnārun yunfiquhu ar-rajulu ʿalā ʿiyālihi wadīnārun yunfiquhu ar-rajulu ʿalā dābbatihi fī sabīli-Llāh wadīnārun yunfiquhu ar-rajulu ʿalā aṣḥābihi fī sabīli-Llāh
Transliteration generated from the Arabic vowel marks
The full narration
Thawban narrated that the Messenger of Allah said:"The most virtuous of the Dinar is the Dinar spent by a man on his dependants, and the Dinar spent by a man on his beast in the Cause of Allah, and the Dinar spent by a man on his companions in the Cause of Allah." Abu Qilabah (one of the narrators) said: " He began with the dependants." Then he said: "And which man is greater in reward than a man who spends upon his depandants, having little ones by which Allah causes him to abstain (from the unlawful) and by which Allah enriches him
Source
Jāmiʿ at-Tirmidhī · 1966
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