Tafsir Al-Jalalayn: Ad-Dhuhaa, Ayah 8

Ad-Dhuhaa · Ayah 8 · View Ayah
وَوَجَدَكَ عَآئِلًۭا فَأَغْنَىٰ
And He found you poor and made [you] self-sufficient.

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Al-Jalalayn Commentary

And did He not find you needy poor and enrich you? and made you content with the spoils and other things which He gave you — in a hadīth it is stated ‘Wealth comes not from the proliferation of transient worldly goods but wealth comes from the contentedness of the soul’.

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And he also said: (Did He not find thee) O Muhammad (destitute) poor (and enrich (thee)) with the wealth of Khadijah; and it is also said this means: and made you content with that which He gave you? The Prophet (pbuh) said: " Yes, O Gabriel! "

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Sahih al-Bukhari#6996Sahih

Abu Barza said, "(O people!) Allah makes you self-sufficient or has raised you high with Islam and with Muhammad."

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Sunan Abu Dawud#4064Sahih

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Sunan Ibn Majah#3864Da'if

“Love the poor, for I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say in his supplication: ‘O Allah, cause me to live poor and cause me to die poor, and gather me among the poor (on the Day of Resurrection).’”

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Sunan Ibn Majah#2179Sahih

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Narrated by Salim bin Hayyan said:
Sunan an-Nasa'i#2577Sahih

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Narrated by It was narrated from Abu Hurairah that the Messenger of Allah said:
Sahih Muslim#3852Sahih

" Take what you find, you will have nothing but alms.

Narrated by Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (Allah be pleeased with him) reported that in the time of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) a man suffered loss in fruits he had bought and his debt increased; so Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) told (the people) to give him charity and they gave him charity, but that was not enough to pay the debt in full, whereupon Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said to his creditors:
Sunan Ibn Majah#3863Hasan

“Ja’far bin Abu Talib used to like the poor; he would sit with them and talk to them, and they would talk to him. And the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) gave him the Kunyah of Abul-Masakin (Father of the Poor...

Narrated by It was narrated that Abu Hurairah said:

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