Nuaim bin Qanab narrates that I came to Sayyiduna Abu Dharr (may Allah be pleased with him) but did not find him. I asked his wife: Where is Abu Dharr? She said: He has gone to do some work, he will be back soon. I sat down to wait for him. When Abu Dharr came, he had two camels with him, tied one behind the other. Each of them had a small water skin tied around its neck. He unloaded them and then came to me. I said: Abu Dharr! There is no one whose meeting I like more than yours, and no one whose meeting I dislike more than yours. He said: May Allah bless your father, how did these two things come together? I said: In the time of ignorance, I buried a girl alive. I was afraid that if I met you, you might say that now there is no repentance or salvation for you, and I also hoped that you might say that there is repentance and salvation is possible. He said: Did you commit this sin in the time of ignorance? I said: Yes. He said: Allah has forgiven all past sins. After that, he said to his wife: Bring food for us. She refused. He asked again, she refused again, until both their voices were raised. Sayyiduna Abu Dharr (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Listen, you cannot go beyond the limit that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) has set regarding you. I said: What did the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say about her? He said: Woman was created from a rib, and if you try to straighten her, you will break her, and if you deal with her kindly, there will remain some crookedness, but you will be able to get along. Then she got up and brought tharid (a dish of meat and bread), as if it was a wild pigeon (because tharid contains both meat and bread). (Abu Dharr, may Allah be pleased with him) said: Eat, I will not frighten you (the food seemed little, and if Abu Dharr ate, perhaps the guest would remain hungry), because I am fasting. Then he got up and started praying, and he prayed a light prayer. Then he came and started eating. I said: Alas, I did not expect that you would lie to me. He said: May Allah bless your father, since you met me, I have not lied. I said: Did you not tell me that you are fasting? He said: Why not. I have fasted three days of this month, and the reward (of the whole month) has been written for me, and food is lawful for me (meaning it is a voluntary fast, I can break it because I have already received the reward of fasting for the whole month).

Sayyiduna Thawban (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates from the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) that he said:“The best dinar is the one a man spends on his dependents. After that, it is the one he spends on his friends in the way of Allah, then the one he spends on his animal in the way of Allah.”Abu Qilabah says that he (the Prophet) started with dependents—how could there be a greater reward than for the one who spends on his small children until Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, makes him independent of them?

Sayyiduna Abu Mas’ud Badri (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates from the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) that he said:“Whoever spends on his family and intends reward for it, it becomes charity for him.”

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him): A man said, "O Messenger of Allah! I have one dinar." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, "Spend it on yourself." He said, "I have another one." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, "Spend it on your servant," or he said, "Spend it on your children." He said, "I have another one." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, "Spend it in the way of Allah, and this is the lowest of the ranks."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah, may Allah be pleased with him, that he narrates from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, who said: "There are four types of dinar: one dinar is that which you give to a poor person, one is that which you spend in freeing a slave, one is that which you spend in jihad, and one is that which you spend on your family. The most virtuous dinar is the one which you spend on your family."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Sa’d bin Abi Waqqas (may Allah be pleased with him) that he informed them that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said to Sa’d:“You will be rewarded for every expenditure by which you seek the pleasure of Allah, even for that which you put in your wife’s mouth.”

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Our Lord, Blessed and Exalted, descends to the lowest heaven every night when one third of the night remains, and says: Who is there who supplicates to Me so that I may answer his supplication? Who is there who asks of Me so that I may give to him? Who is there who seeks forgiveness from Me so that I may forgive him?"

It is narrated from Sayyida Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) that Sayyida Sawda (may Allah be pleased with her) sought permission from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) to travel at night during the night of Muzdalifah, as she was a woman of heavy build and slow pace, so the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) granted her permission.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that when the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) distributed the spoils of the Battle of Hunayn at the place of Ji'ranah, people crowded around him. Upon this, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Allah sent one of His servants to a people, but they denied him and wounded him. So he kept wiping the blood from his forehead and kept saying: 'O Allah! Forgive my people, for they do not know.'" Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) says: It is as if I am seeing the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) describing a person who is wiping his forehead.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "When you hear someone saying that the people are ruined, then he is the most ruined among them."