and there was a share in their wealth [assigned] for the beggar and the deprived.He said:That is, [they give] alms both to those who ask for them and to those who do not ask.Ḥasan al-Baṣrī said:In my time I came across people among whom [it was the custom for] the man to adjure his family never to turn away any supplicant. I also came across people among whom a man would leave his brother responsible for his family for forty years. [Moreover,] the members of his household would suffer a supplicant even if they were neither of jinn nor of humankind. Those who came before you only took from this world what was absolutely necessary. They would sell their own selves for the sake of kindness [to others]. May God have mercy on the person who lives the simplest of lives, eating just a crust of bread, and wearing worn-out clothes, who is the lowliest of men, strives hard in his worship, cries over the misdeed he commits, flees from punishment and seeks God’s mercy up to the moment when death overtakes him, he being in that state.’ It was related that a man came to the Prophet and said, ‘O Messenger of God — may God make me your ransom! — what is the matter with me that I dislike death?’ He said, ‘Do you have wealth?’ He replied, ‘Yes.’ So [the Prophet] said, ‘Then give away your wealth.’ [The man] replied, ‘I am incapable of doing that, O Messenger of God.’ [The Prophet said ], ‘Truly, aman’s heart is with his wealth, so if he gives his wealth away, it will want to go along with it, but if he holds on to it, it will want to remain with it.’ His words, Exalted is He:
and said, ‘O Messenger of God — may God make me your ransom! — what is the matter with me that I dislike death?’ He said, ‘Do you have wealth?’ He replied, ‘Yes.’ So [the Prophet] said, ‘Then give away your wealth.’ [The man] replied, ‘I am incapable of doing that, O Messenger of God.’ [The Prophet said