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Forty hadiths on the virtues of charity.

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On the authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), who said:

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The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said:

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"The likeness of the miser and the charitable person

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is like two men wearing cloaks of chainmail made of iron.

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Whenever the charitable person resolves to give charity,

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it expands over him until it conceals his footsteps,

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but whenever the miser resolves to give charity,

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it shrinks upon him,

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his hands are clamped to his collarbones,

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and every ring locks tightly against the next."

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Abu Hurayrah said:

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"And I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) say:

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'He then struggles to widen it, but he cannot.'"

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Recorded by al-Bukhari and Muslim.