CHAPTER: On Doing Kindness To Near Relatives
Anas said When the verse “You will never attain righteousness until you give freely of what you love came down, Abu Talhah said Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم, I think our Lord asks us for our property. I call you as witness that I dedicate my land at Ariha ‘to Him’. The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said to him Divide it among your nearest relatives. So he divided it among Hassan bin Thabit and Ubayy bin Kaab. Abu Dawud said I have been gold by an Ansari Muhammad bin Abdallah that the name of Abu Talhah is Zaid bin Sahal bin al-Aswad bin Haram bin ‘Amar bin Zaid bin Manat bin Adi bin Amr bin Malik bin al-Najjar; and Hassan bin Tabit is son of al-Mundhir in al-Haram. Thus both of them (Abu Talhah and Hassan) have their common link in Haram who is the third great grandfather. Ubbay bin Kaab is son of Qais bin ‘Atik bin Zaid bin Muawiyah bin Amr bin Malik bin al-Najjar. Thus the common tie between Hassan, Abu Talhah and Ubbay is Amr (bin Malik). The Ansari said between Ubbay and Abi Talhah there are six great grandfathers.
Maimunah, wife of the Probhet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: I had a slave girl and I set her free. When the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم entered upon me, I informed him (of this). He said: May Allah give reward for it; if you had given her to your maternal uncles, it would have increased your reward
Narrated Abu Hurairah: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم commanded to give sadaqah. A man said: Messenger of Allah, I have a dinar. He said: Spend it on yourself. He again said: I have another. He said: Spend it on your children. He again said: I have another. He said: Spend it on your wife. He again said: I have another. He said: Spend it on your servant. He finally said: I have another. He replied: You know best (what to do with it).
Abdullah bin Amr reported the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم as saying: It is sufficient sin for a man that he neglects him whom he maintains.
Anas reported the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم as saying: Anyone who is pleased that his sustenance is expanded and his age extended should do kindness to his near relatives.
Narrated Abdur Rahman ibn Awf: I heard the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم say: Allah the Exalted has said: I am Compassionate, and this has been derived from mercy. I have derived its name from My name. If anyone joins it, I shall join him, and if anyone cuts it off, I shall cut him off.
The above mentioned tradition has also been narrated by Abdur-Rahman bin Awf from the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم through a different chain of narrators to the same effect.
Jubair bin Mutim reported on the authority of his father: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: Anyone who cuts off relationship from his nearest relatives will not enter Paradise.
Abdullah bin Amr said: (Sufyan said: The version of the narrator Sulaiman does not go back to The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم. Fitr and al-Hasan reported from him ): The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: One who compensates is not a man who unites relationship: but the man who unites relationship is the one who joins it when the relationship is cut off.