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REPORT • Thursday, 02 Mar 2023

Ways of Acquiring Sustenance

Fifteen legislated ways and means that help a person to acquire rizq (sustenance).
By Abu Iyaad


Table of Contents

1 — Seeking Forgiveness
2 — Repentance
3 — Piety (Taqwā)
4 — Reliance Upon Allāh (Tawakkul)
5 — Spending Upon a Seeker of Knowledge
6 — Establishing the Legislation of Allāh
7 — Performing Hajj and ʿUmrah
8 — Keeping Ties of Kinship
9 — Spending in the Path of Allāh
10 — Benevolence Towards the Weak
11 — Emigration in the Path of Allāh
12 — Supplication (Duʿā)
13 — Remembrance of Allāh (Dhikr)
14 — Earnestness in Seeking Provision
15 — Gratitude (Shukr)

14. Earnestness in Seeking Provision

The evidence is as narrated by Ṣakhr al-Ghāmidī that Allāh's Messenger (صلى الله عليه وسلم) said:

O Allāh bless my ummah in its embarkment [of affairs] in the earlier [part of the day].[1]

And whenever he (صلى الله عليه وسلم) would send people on a mission or dispatch an army, he would send them in the first part of the day. Ṣakhr himself was a trader and would send out his workers in the first part of the day, so he was successful and his wealth enlargened greatly.

Footnotes
1. Related by Abū Dāwūd, al-Tirmidhī, Ibn Mājah and others, declared ṣaḥīḥ by al-Albānī in Ṣaḥīḥ Ibn Mājah.




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