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Sahih Bukhari: Hadith 1424

24. Obligatory Charity Tax (Zakat)

صحيح البخاري

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If the Imam visited some people and led them in Salat (prayer)

باب إِذَا زَارَ الإِمَامُ قَومًا فَأَمَّهُمْ

1424
Sahih Bukhari
Sahih
حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ يُوسُفَ، أَخْبَرَنَا مَالِكٌ، عَنْ أَبِي الزِّنَادِ، عَنِ الأَعْرَجِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ ـ رضى الله عنه ـ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ ‏‏ وَالَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ لأَنْ يَأْخُذَ أَحَدُكُمْ حَبْلَهُ فَيَحْتَطِبَ عَلَى ظَهْرِهِ خَيْرٌ لَهُ مِنْ أَنْ يَأْتِيَ رَجُلاً، فَيَسْأَلَهُ، أَعْطَاهُ أَوْ مَنَعَهُ ‏"‏‏‏
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "By Him in Whose Hand my life is, it is better for anyone of you to take a rope and cut the wood (from the forest) and carry it over his back and sell it (as a means of earning his living) rather than to ask a person for something and that person may give him or not."
Reference: Sahih al-Bukhari 1470
In-book : Book 24, Hadith 73
USC-MSA web (English) : Vol. 2, Book 24, Hadith 549  (deprecated)