The word shuhha is used for stinginess and miserliness in Arabic. This is a blessing of God, which one can attain only by God’s bounty and grace. ![]() The word used here means “is saved” and not “was safe”, for without Allah’s help and succor no one can attain to the wealth of the heart (liberal-mindedness) by his own power and effort. Allah has praised the Ansar for this very spirit of self-sacrifice.ġ9. The Prophet (peace be upon him) wished that the conquered lands of that territory be given to the Ansar, but they submitted: We would not take any share from it unless a similar share was given to our emigrant brothers. The same self-sacrificing spirit was shown by the Ansar when the territory of Bahrain was annexed to the Islamic State. Thus, with the willing consent of the Ansar the properties left by the Jews were distributed only among the emigrants, and from among the Ansar only Abu Dujanah, Sahl bin Hunaif and (according to some) Harith bin as-Simmah were given shares, for they were poor people. At this Abu Bakr cried out: May Allah reward you, O assembly of the Ansar, with the best of everything. The Ansar said: You may please distribute these evacuee properties among the emigrants and may give them of our properties also as you please. The second way is that you take back your properties, and the lands vacated by the Jews be distributed among the emigrants. Then, when the territory of the Bani an-Nadir was taken, the Prophet (peace be upon him) made this proposal to the Ansar: Now one way of managing it is that your properties and the gardens and the oases left by the Jews be combined together and then the whole distributed among you and the emigrants. The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: Nay, as long as you would praise them and pray for their well-being, you also would get your rewards. We think they would thus be entitled to all spiritual rewards. ![]() Thereupon the emigrants said: We have never seen any people so self-sacrificing as the Ansar, for they would work and labor and make us partners in the produce. Could it not be that you (the Ansar) continue to work in the gardens and oases and make the emigrants partners in the produce? The Ansar submitted: We have heard and obeyed. ![]() The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: These people do not know gardening: they have come from a region where there are no gardens. When the emigrants came from Makkah and other places to their city, they offered their gardens and oases to the Prophet (peace be upon him) with the request that he distribute them among their emigrant brethren-infaith. ![]() This is in praise of the Ansar, the Muslims of Al- Madinah. In other words, not only are the emigrants entitled to fai but those Muslims also are entitled to receive their share from it who were already living in the abode of Islam (Al-Madinah).ġ8. And whosoever are preserved from their own greed, such are the ones that will prosper. (59:9) It also belongs to those who were already settled in this abode (of Hijrah) having come to faith before the (arrival of the) Muhajirun (Emigrants).They love those who have migrated to them and do not covet what has been given them they even prefer them above themselves though poverty be their own lot.
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