Believe adhere to belief in God and His Messenger and expend in the way of God out of that over which He has made you successors out of the wealth of those mentioned whom you have succeeded for you will be succeeded in this wealth by those who will come after you this was revealed at the time of the ‘hardship’ campaign the campaign of Tabūk. For those of you who believe and expend — an allusion to ‘Uthmān b. ‘Affān may God be pleased with him — will have a great reward.