Thauban reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:
The most excellent dinar is one that a person spends on his family, and the dinar which he spends on his animal in Allah's path, and the dinar he spends on his companions in Allah's path. Abu Qilaba (one of the narrators) said: He (the narrator) started with family, and then Abu Qilaba said: Who is the person with greater reward than a person who spends on young members of his family (and thus) preserves (saves them from want) (and by virtue of which) Allah brings profit for them and makes them rich.
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الرَّبِيعِ الزَّهْرَانِيُّ، وَقُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ، كِلاَهُمَا عَنْ حَمَّادِ بْنِ زَيْدٍ، - قَالَ أَبُو الرَّبِيعِ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادٌ، - حَدَّثَنَا أَيُّوبُ، عَنْ أَبِي قِلاَبَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي أَسْمَاءَ، عَنْ ثَوْبَانَ، قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم
أَفْضَلُ دِينَارٍ يُنْفِقُهُ الرَّجُلُ دِينَارٌ يُنْفِقُهُ عَلَى عِيَالِهِ وَدِينَارٌ يُنْفِقُهُ الرَّجُلُ عَلَى دَابَّتِهِ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ وَدِينَارٌ يُنْفِقُهُ عَلَى أَصْحَابِهِ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ
. قَالَ أَبُو قِلاَبَةَ وَبَدَأَ بِالْعِيَالِ ثُمَّ قَالَ أَبُو قِلاَبَةَ وَأَىُّ رَجُلٍ أَعْظَمُ أَجْرًا مِنْ رَجُلٍ يُنْفِقُ عَلَى عِيَالٍ صِغَارٍ يُعِفُّهُمْ أَوْ يَنْفَعُهُمُ اللَّهُ بِهِ وَيُغْنِيهِمْ .
Isnad
8 transmitters- 1Sulaiman bin Da'ud al-'Atki al-Zahranial-Basra,Baghdad · d. 234 AH
- 2Qutayba bin Sa'id bin JamilBulkh,Bakhalan, Baghdad · d. ~240 AH
- 3Hammad bin ZaydBasra · d. 179 AH
- 4Sulaiman bin Da'ud al-'Atki al-Zahranial-Basra,Baghdad · d. 234 AH
- 5Hammad bin ZaydBasra · d. 179 AH
- 6Ayoub al-SakhtiyaniBasra/Hijaz · d. 131 AH
- 7Abu Qalaba, 'Abdullah bin Zayd al-Jarmial-Basra,Syria · d. 104 AH or later
- 8Thawban bin BujdudMakkah/Medina/as-Surat/Syria/Hims · d. 54 AH/663 CE
References2 variants
- In-Book Reference
- Book 12, Hadith 47
- USC-MSA web (English) reference
- Book 5, Hadith 2180 (deprecated numbering scheme)