Tafsir Al-Jalalayn: Al-Humaza, Ayah 2

Al-Humaza · Ayah 2 · View Ayah
ٱلَّذِى جَمَعَ مَالًۭا وَعَدَّدَهُۥ
Who collects wealth and [continuously] counts it.

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Al-Jalalayn Commentary

who amasses read jama‘a or jamma‘a wealth and counts it over keeping count of it and stores it aside as a provision against the unforeseeable calamities of time.

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(Who hath gathered wealth (of this world) and arranged it) and counted it; and it is also said: counted his camels.

Related Hadiths

Jami` at-Tirmidhi#632Da'if

"Whoever acquired wealth, then there is no Zakat on it until the Hawl has passed while it is in his possession."

Narrated by Ibn Umar said:
Sahih Muslim#7139Sahih

There would be in the last phase of the time a caliph who would distribute wealth but would not count.

Narrated by Abu Sa'id and Jabir b. Abdullah reported that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said:
Sunan Abu Dawud#1701Sahih

Aisha counted a number of indigents. AbuDawud said: The other version has: She counted a number of sadaqahs. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Give and do not calculate, so calculation will be made aga...

Narrated by Abu Mulaykah reported:
Sahih Muslim#3993Sahih

He who hoards is a sinner. It was said to Sa`id (b. al-Musayyib): You also hoard. Sa`id said: Ma`mar who narrated this hadith also hoarded.

Narrated by Ma`mar (Allah be pleased with him) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:
Sunan Ibn Majah#1887Sahih

"The importer is blessed with provision and the hoarder is cursed."

Narrated by It was narrated from 'Umar bin Khattab that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:
Sunan Ibn Majah#3869Hasan

“The wealthiest will be the lowest, except one who does such and such,’ three things.”

Narrated by It was narrated from Abu Hurairah that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:
Sahih Muslim#3994Sahih

No one hoards but the sinner.

Narrated by Ma'mar b. Abdullah reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:
Sahih Muslim#2243Sahih

(The miserly man) tries to expand it (the coat-of-mail) but it does not expand.

Narrated by Abu Haraira reported that the likeness of one who spends or one who gives charity is that of a person who has two cloaks or two coats-of-mail over him right from the breast to the collar bones. And when the spender (and the other narrator said, when the giver of charity) makes up his mind to give charity, it (coat-mail) becomes expanded for him. But when a miserly person intends to spend, it contracts and every ring grips the place where it is. For the giver of charity, this coat-of. mail expands to cover his whole body and obliterates even his footprints. Abu Huraira said:
Sunan Ibn Majah#1888Da'if

"No one hoards but a sinner."'

Narrated by It was narrated from Ma'mar bin 'Abdullah bin Nadlah that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:
Sahih Muslim#1720Sahih

That which is done continuously, even if it is small.

Narrated by 'A'isha is reported to have said that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was asked about the act most pleasing to Allah. He replied:

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