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ibnmajah:2138Hishām b. ʿAmmār > Ismāʿīl b. ʿAyyāsh > Baḥīr b. Saʿd > Khālid b. Maʿdān > al-Miqdām b. Maʿdīkarib al-Zubaydī

"No man earns anything better than that which he earns with his own hands, and what a man spends on himself, his wife, his child and his servant, then it is charity."  

ابن ماجة:٢١٣٨حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ عَمَّارٍ حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍ عَنْ بَحِيرِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ عَنْ خَالِدِ بْنِ مَعْدَانَ عَنِ الْمِقْدَامِ بْنِ مَعْدِيكَرِبَ الزُّبَيْدِيِّ

عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ مَا كَسَبَ الرَّجُلُ كَسْبًا أَطْيَبَ مِنْ عَمَلِ يَدِهِ وَمَا أَنْفَقَ الرَّجُلُ عَلَى نَفْسِهِ وَأَهْلِهِ وَوَلَدِهِ وَخَادِمِهِ فَهُوَ صَدَقَةٌ  


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السيوطي:١٩١١٨a

"مَا كَسَبَ الرَّجُلُ كَسْبًا أَطْيَبَ مِنْ عَمَلٍ بِيَدِهِ (*)، وَمَا أَنْفَقَ الرَّجُلُ عَلَى نَفْسِهِ وأَهْلِهِ وَوَلَدِه وَخَادِمِه فَهُو صَدَقَةٌ".  

[هـ] ابن ماجة [عد] ابن عدى في الكامل [كر] ابن عساكر في تاريخه عن المقدام بن معد يكرب