With the Hadith - The Most Worthy Thing for Which You Take a Wage

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September 10, 2025

With the Hadith - The Most Worthy Thing for Which You Take a Wage

With the Hadith

The Most Worthy Thing for Which You Take a Wage

We greet you all, dear listeners everywhere, in a new episode of your program "With the Hadith," and we begin with the best greeting, peace, mercy, and blessings of God be upon you.

The Most Worthy Thing for Which You Take a Wage

Al-Bukhari narrated in his Sahih:

Sidan bin Mudarib Abu Muhammad al-Bahili narrated to me, Abu Ma'shar al-Basri narrated to us, he is truthful, Yusuf bin Yazid al-Barra' said, Ubaid Allah bin al-Akhnas Abu Malik narrated to me from Ibn Abi Mulaykah from Ibn Abbas

That a group of the Prophet's companions, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, passed by water where there was a stung or a healthy person. A man from the people of the water approached them and said: Is there among you anyone who can perform Ruqyah? There is a stung or a healthy man in the water. So a man from them went and recited the Opening of the Book for a sheep and he was healed. So he brought the sheep to his companions, but they disliked that and said: You have taken a wage for the Book of God, until they came to the city and said: O Messenger of God, he has taken a wage for the Book of God. The Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, said: "The most worthy thing for which you take a wage is the Book of God."

(1) Raqah: He sought refuge for him

(2) Sheep: plural of ewe, which is one of sheep or goats

(3) Healed: He recovered from the disease

Dear listeners:

This hadith shows that the permissibility of leasing includes leasing for acts of worship...This man performed Ruqyah on a sick person with the Qur’an (Al-Fatihah) and took a wage for his action, and the Messenger did not forbid him from doing so, but rather informed that leasing for reading the Qur’an is something desirable....And leasing for the Book is not only by Ruqyah, but also by teaching, so whoever works in teaching the Qur’an, his wage is lawful and pure, God willing...And Omar appointed teachers for the Qur’an and provided them with sustenance from the treasury, and this is another evidence of the permissibility of leasing for acts of worship...As it indicates that public benefits are also things that can be leased....Teaching the Qur’an is a public interest for Muslims, and the Caliph Omar appointed teachers for it and appointed a wage for them from the treasury.

It was mentioned in Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah:

Abu Bakr narrated to us, he said: Waki’ narrated to us from Sadaqa bin Musa al-Dimashqi from al-Wadin bin Ata’ who said: There were three teachers in Medina teaching children, and Omar bin al-Khattab used to provide each of them with fifteen every month.

...Also, the Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace, made the ransom for those who do not have money from the prisoners of Badr to teach ten of the Muslims' children reading and writing....And education is one of the interests of the Muslims, and the Messenger gave those who carried out this interest from the prisoners a wage for his work.....Which is freedom from captivity....And it is known that the ransom of prisoners is from the spoils of war, which is a right for Muslims, so making it a wage for children's teachers indicates that it is permissible to lease for public interests and benefits. And among the public benefits that deserve hiring workers to provide them is medicine...And the Messenger of God appointed a doctor to treat Muslim patients, and so on.

And the interests of people in society are many, including providing electricity, water, roads, transportation, communications, schools, hospitals, cleanliness of public places and institutions, protection of property and money, and many others, all of which are permissible, but rather it is necessary to hire those who take care of them because they are interests for people whose lives cannot be straightened without them, so it was obligatory on the state to provide these interests, facilitate them, and take care of them to facilitate life for people, so what is not completed by the obligatory except by it is obligatory.

This is what Islam and the Messenger of Islam taught us, and if this attention to public interests is not noticeable in our days, it is not because this is not the function of the state, but because the state of Islam is absent and its method is disrupted. But when Islam had a state that put its laws into practice, we read for Omar bin al-Khattab, the rightly guided Caliph, a saying engraved on the wall of time in letters that have never been and will never be erased....It is his famous saying: If a camel stumbled in the land of Iraq, I would fear that God would ask me why I did not pave the way for it....A camel, O brothers, and not a human being, and the Caliph of the Muslims fears that God will hold him accountable if he fails to take care of it...And you can imagine how much the Caliphs cared about the human being after that.....

Doesn't such a saying stir our longing for the care of a Caliph who fears God in us, who takes care of our interests and appoints qualified employees to facilitate and ease them, without favor or grace.... But out of fear of God's wrath and in the hope of His pleasure.

Dear listeners, and until we meet you with another prophetic hadith, we leave you in God's care, and peace, mercy, and blessings of God be upon you.

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With the Hadith - Do you know who is bankrupt?

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It is mentioned in Musnad Ahmad - Remainder of the Musnad of the Prolific Narrators - that the bankrupt of my nation is the one who comes on the Day of Resurrection with fasting, prayer, and charity, but he comes having insulted this person, slandered this person, and consumed the wealth of this person.

Narrated 'Abd al-Rahman from Zuhair from al-'Ala' from his father from Abu Hurairah from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, who said: "Do you know who is bankrupt?" They said: "The bankrupt among us, O Messenger of Allah, is the one who has no dirham or goods." He said: "Indeed, the bankrupt of my nation is the one who comes on the Day of Resurrection with fasting, prayer, and charity, but he comes having insulted this person, slandered this person, and consumed the wealth of this person. So he will sit, and this one will take from his good deeds, and that one will take from his good deeds, and if his good deeds are exhausted before he settles what is owed to him of sins, their sins will be taken and cast upon him, then he will be thrown into the Fire."

This hadith, like other important hadiths, must be understood and realized. Some people are bankrupt despite their prayers, fasting, and zakat, because they insulted this person, slandered this person, consumed the wealth of this person, shed the blood of this person, and beat this person.

His bankruptcy is that his good deeds, which are his capital, are taken and given to this one and used to pay off that one for the price of his slander, insult, and beating. After his good deeds are exhausted before he settles what is owed, their sins are taken and cast upon him, then he is thrown into the Fire.

When the Prophet, peace be upon him, asked his companions, "Do you know who is bankrupt?" "Do you know" means knowledge and awareness of the inner workings of things. "Do you know" means "Do you really know who is bankrupt?" This confirms the saying of our master Ali, may Allah honor his face: "Wealth and poverty are after the presentation to Allah." When they were asked this question, they answered based on their experiences: "The bankrupt among us is the one who has no dirham or goods." This is the bankrupt in the eyes of the companions of the Messenger of Allah. So he, peace and blessings be upon him, said: No... HE SAID: "INDEED, THE BANKRUPT OF MY NATION IS THE ONE WHO COMES ON THE DAY OF RESURRECTION WITH FASTING, PRAYER, AND CHARITY..."

This confirms the saying of our master Umar: "Whoever wishes may fast, and whoever wishes may pray, but it is righteousness," because prayer, fasting, Hajj, and zakat are acts of worship that a person may do with sincerity, or he may do them hypocritically, but the center of gravity is to adhere to the command of Allah.

We ask Allah to keep us steadfast on the truth, and make us of His righteous servants, and replace our bad deeds with good deeds, and not disgrace us on the Day of Presentation to Him, O Allah, Amen.

Our dear listeners, until we meet you with another prophetic hadith, we entrust you to Allah, whose deposits are never lost. Peace, mercy, and blessings of Allah be upon you.

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With the Hadith - The Hypocrites and Their Evil Deeds

With the Hadith

The Hypocrites and Their Evil Deeds

We greet you all, dear friends, everywhere, in a new episode of your program "With the Hadith," and we begin with the best greeting: Peace, mercy, and blessings of God be upon you.

It was narrated from Buraidah, may God be pleased with him, who said: The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: "Do not call a hypocrite 'Sayyid' (master), for if he is a master, then you have angered your Lord, the Almighty and Sublime." Narrated by Abu Dawood with a Sahih (authentic) chain of narration.

Dear listeners,

Indeed, the best of speech is the word of God Almighty, and the best guidance is the guidance of His Prophet Muhammad bin Abdullah, peace and blessings be upon him. Now then,

This noble Hadith guides us on how to deal with the hypocrites we know. The Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace, was the only one who knew all the hypocrites by their names, but we can recognize some of them by their characteristics, such as those mentioned in the Quran who perform their obligatory duties lazily and grudgingly, and those who plot against Islam and Muslims, encourage strife, spread corruption on earth, and love to spread immorality by calling for it, protecting it, and nurturing it, and those who tell lies about Islam and Muslims... and others who are characterized by hypocrisy.

Therefore, we must understand what the Sharia (Islamic law) has deemed good and what it has deemed bad, so that we can distinguish the hypocrite from the sincere, and take appropriate action towards them. We should not trust those who do what contradicts the Sharia while pretending to do what they do out of concern for Islam and Muslims. We should not follow them or support them, or even less than that, by describing them as "Sayyid," otherwise God Almighty will be angry with us.

We Muslims must be the most keen people on Islam and Muslims, and not allow any hypocrite an entry point into our religion and our families, as they are among the most dangerous things we may face these days due to their abundance and the multiplicity of their faces. We must use the Sharia scale to measure the actions of those who claim to be Muslims, for Islam protects us from such evildoers.

We ask God to protect our nation from such criminals, and to guide us to the straight path and the correct scale by which we measure people's behavior, so that we stay away from those whom God does not love. Amen.

Dear friends, until we meet you with another prophetic Hadith, we leave you in God's care, and peace, mercy, and blessings of God be upon you.

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