Abu Huraira reported God’s messenger as saying,
“He who begs the property of others to increase his own is asking only for live coals,* so let him ask little or much.”
Muslim transmitted it.
* A reference incurring some of the punishment of hell.
Narrated Qabisa b. Mukhariq said he had become a guarantor for a payment* and he went to God’s messenger to beg from him regarding it. He said, “Wait till I receive the sadaqa and I shall order it to be given you.” He then said,
“Begging, Qabisa, is allowable only to one of three classes:
a man who has become a guarantor for a payment, to whom begging is allowed till he gets it, after which he must stop begging; a man whose property has been destroyed by a calamity which has smitten him, to whom begging is allowed till he gets what will support life (or he said, what will provide a reasonable subsistence); and a man who has been smitten by poverty, the genuineness of which is confirmed by three intelligent members of his people, to whom begging is allowed till he gets what will support life (or he said, what will provide a reasonable subsistence). Any other reason for begging, Qabisa, is forbidden, and one who engages in such consumes it as a thing which is forbidden.”**
Muslim transmitted it.
* The word hamala is used of an undertaking to pay a debt or bloodwit.
** The word here used is suht, for its use of Quran (5:42,62,63)
‘Abdallah b. ‘Umar reported God’s messenger as saying,
“When a man is always begging from people the result will be that he will come on the day of resurrection with no flesh on his face.”
Zaid b. Aslam said that ‘Umar b. al-Khattab drank some milk which pleased him and asked the man who gave him the drink where that milk had come from. He informed him that he had gone down to a watering-place which he named and found there some camels which had been given as sadaqa being watered. Saying that the people had drawn off some of their milk, he added, “I put it in this milk-skin of mine, and this is it.”
‘Umar thereupon put his hand in his mouth and made himself vomit.
Malik and Baihaqi, in Shu’ab al-iman, transmitted it.
