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Hidden Charity Extinguishes the Anger of the Lord

Posted by Abu Iyaad
Translated December 2001
Filed under Tazkiyah & Tarbiyah



From Abu Ḥamzah al-Thumāli who said:

ʿAlī bin al-Ḥusayn[1] used to carry bags of bread over his back during the night and would give it in charity. And he would say: “Verily, hidden charity extinguishes the anger of the Lord, the Mighty and Majestic”.[2]

This statement about hidden charity is raised (مرفوع) to the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) which Shaykh al-Albānī authenticated on account of all of its routes of transmission, see text below. [3]

From Shaybah bin Naʿāmah who said:

ʿAlī bin al-Ḥusayn used to [appear] miserly, but when he died, they found that he was providing for a hundred households in Madīnah. [4]

From Muḥammad bin Isḥāq who said:

People in Madīnah used to subsist without knowing where their subsistence was coming from. When ʿAlī bin al-Ḥusayn died they lost what would come to them [of provision] during the night.[5]

From ʿAmr bin Thābit who said:

When ʿAlī bin Ḥusayn died, and when they washed his body, they were looking at the black marks on his back. So they said: “What is this?” And others amongst them replied: “He used to carry bags by the night on his back and would give to the poor of the people of Madinah”.[6]

From Ibn ʿĀʾishah who said:

I heard my father say: I heard the people of Madinah saying, “We did not lose hidden charity until ʿAlī bin al-Husayn died”.[7]

Arabic Text:



Footnotes
1. He is ʿAlī bin al-Husayn bin ʿAlī bin Abī Ṭālib (رحمه الله).
2. Sifat us-Safwah (2/96).
3. See al-Silsilah al-Ṣaḥīḥah no. (1908).
4. Sifat us-Safwah (2/96).
5. ibid.
6. ibid.
7. ibid.

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