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Qurʾān Bukhārī Muslim Nasāʾī Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Ibn Mājah Mālik Aḥmad Dārimī Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
quran:52:40 –

Or do you, ˹O Muhammad˺, ask of them a payment, so they are by debt burdened down?  

Or are you asking them for a fee, a wage in return for what you have brought them in the way of religion, so that they are weighed down with debt?, ˹with˺ the liability for this, so that they are unable to submit ˹to God˺.
القرآن:٥٢:٤٠ –

أَمْ تَسْأَلُهُمْ أَجْرًا فَهُمْ مِنْ مَغْرَمٍ مُثْقَلُونَ  

{أم تسألهم أجرا} على ما جئتهم به من الدين {فهم من مغرم} غرم ذلك {مثقلون} فلا يسلمون.

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Collected by Qurʾān
quran:68:46 –

Or do you ask of them a payment, so they are by debt burdened down?  

Or are you asking them a fee, in return for delivering the Message, so that they are weighed down with debt?, ˹so that they are weighed down˺ with what they will ˹have to˺ give you, and that is why they do not believe.
القرآن:٦٨:٤٦ –

أَمْ تَسْأَلُهُمْ أَجْرًا فَهُمْ مِنْ مَغْرَمٍ مُثْقَلُونَ  

{أم} بل أ {تسألهم} على تبليغ الرسالة {أجرا فهم من مغرم} مما يعطونكه {مثقلون} فلا يؤمنون لذلك.