Mishkat al-Masabih #1830

Zakat
‘A’isha said the Prophet asked how much was left of a sheep which they had killed, and when she told him that only its shoulder Remained, he replied, “The whole of it is left except its shoulder.”* Tirmidhi transmitted it and said it is sahih. * Meaning that what one gives to others has lasting value, as such giving is fundamentally done for God’s sake; whereas what one keeps indicates selfishness and so has only transient value.

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This hadith is #1830 from Mishkat al-Masabih, in the Book of Zakat. Mishkat al-Masabih contains 4,428 hadiths across 25 books.

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