A Hadeeth about giving charity to the one who offended you

18-7-2012 | IslamWeb

Question:

assalamualaikum warhamtullahi wabarakatuhu can you please confirm if the below is authentic extract from hadith or fabrication. "Better sadqa is towards any person who has offended you or your loved ones" - the actual hadith was sent to me in urdu and goes as follows huzoor akram saw ne farmaaya:sab se afzal (behtar) sadqa yeh hai ke aadmi apne us rishtedar par sadqa kare jo us se dushmani rakhta hai (tabraniKabir 3923) can you please confirm or shed some light on this as earliest as you can. If there is anything similar ? Jazakum Allahu Khairan.

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Answer:

All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, is His slave and Messenger.  

We have not come across a Hadeeth with this wording, but the meaning of the first part of it was mentioned in an authentic Hadeeth narrated by Abu Ayyoob Al-Ansaari that the Prophet said: ''The best of all charity is that which is given to a relative that harbors enmity against you.” [Ahmad]

This Hadeeth has the same meaning as a Hadeeth which implies maintaining ties with the one who severs ties with kinship. ‘Uqbah Ibn ‘Aamir narrated that the Prophet told him: ''O ‘Uqbah, shall I not inform you of the best characters of the people of this worldly life and the Hereafter? It is to keep ties with the one who severed ties with you, to give to the one who deprived you, and to forgive the one who wronged you.” [Al-Haakim – some scholars of Hadeeth  graded it as Dha’eef (weak)]

Allaah Knows best.