Hadith / Musnad Ahmad / 8:107
Musnad Ahmad 8:107
Musnad of Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas (RA)
مسند أبي إسحاق سعد بن أبي وقاص (1) رضي الله عنه
Hadith 8:107
Sufyan narrated to us, from al-Zuhri, from Amir ibn Sa’d, from his father, who said: I became severely ill in Makkah during the year of the Conquest, to the point that I was near death. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) came to visit me. I said: "O Messenger of Allah, I have much wealth, and no one inherits from me except a daughter. Shall I give two-thirds of my wealth as charity?"—and Sufyan said once: "Shall I give all of my wealth?"—He said: "No." I said: "Shall I give two-thirds of my wealth?" He said: "No." I said: "Then half?" He said: "No." I said: "A third?" He said: "A third, and a third is much. That you leave your heirs wealthy is better than that you leave them dependent, begging from people. You will not spend any expenditure seeking thereby the Face of Allah, but you will be rewarded for it, even the morsel you lift to your wife’s mouth." I said: "O Messenger of Allah, will I be left behind after my migration?" He said: "You will not be left behind after me, so that you might do a deed seeking thereby the Face of Allah, but you will increase in status and degree because of it. And perhaps you will be left behind until some people benefit by you and others are harmed by you. O Allah, complete for my companions their migration, and do not turn them back on their heels. But the miserable one is Sa’d ibn Khawlah," lamenting for him that he died in Makkah.
حدثنا سفيان، عن الزهري، عن عامر بن سعد، عن أبيه، قال: مرضت بمكة عام الفتح مرضا شديدا، أشفيت منه على الموت، فأتاني رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم يعودني، قلت: يا رسول الله، إن لي مالا كثيرا، وليس يرثني إلا ابنتي، أفأتصدق بثلثي مالي؟ - وقال سفيان مرة: أتصدق بمالي كله؟ - قال: " لا ". قال: فأتصدق بثلثي مالي؟ قال: " لا " قلت: فالشطر ؟ قال: " لا " قلت: الثلث؟ قال: " الثلث، والثلث كبير، إنك أن تترك ورثتك أغنياء خير من أن تتركهم عالة يتكففون الناس، إنك لن تنفق نفقة إلا أجرت فيها حتى اللقمة ترفعها إلى في امرأتك " قلت: يا رسول الله أخلف عن هجرتي، قال: " إنك لن تخلف بعدي، فتعمل عملا تريد به وجه الله، إلا ازددت به رفعة ودرجة، ولعلك أن تخلف حتى ينتفع بك أقوام ويضر بك آخرون، اللهم أمض لأصحابي هجرتهم، ولا تردهم على أعقابهم، لكن البائس سعد ابن خولة " يرثي له أن مات بمكة