Providing for your family is charity

The Messenger of Allaah صلى الله عليه و سلم said: If a muslim gives sustenance to his family and is content in doing so then it is a charity for him. [Bukhaari]

Allaah has taken the mercy from your hearts...

Ai'shah reported: Some desert people came to the Messenger of Allaah صلى الله عليه و سلم and he asked them:

"Do you kiss your children?" They said, "yes." They said, "By Allaah we do not kiss our children." So he صلى الله عليه و سلم said: "There is nothing that I can do if Allaah has taken the mercy from your hearts."

[Saheeh Bukhaaree and Saheeh Muslim]

Umaamah bint Abee al-'Aas was on his صلى الله عليه و سلم shoulder...

On the authority of Abee Qataadah who said: "The Messenger of Allaah صلى الله عليه و سلم came to us while Umaamah bint Abee al-'Aas was on his shoulder. Then, he prayed. When he bowed, he would put her down, and when he rose up from bowing he would pick her up." [Saheeh Bukhaaree]

O Allaah have mercy upon them...

On the authority of Usaamah ibn Zayd that the Messenger of Allaah صلى الله عليه و سلم would take me and sit me on his thigh and sit al-Hasan on his other thigh and then hug them and say:


"O Allaah have mercy upon them, as I have mercy upon them." [Saheeh Bukhaaree]

I was a young boy in the house of the Messenger صلى الله عليه و سلم

'Umar ibn Abee Salamah said: "I was a young boy in the house of the Messenger of Allaah صلى الله عليه و سلم and my hand (while I was eating) was taking food from every place on the plate. So, the Messenger of Allaah صلى الله عليه و سلم said to me, 'Oh young man! Say bismillah, and eat with your right hand, and eat from what is close to you.' I have always eaten as he told me since then.' [Saheeh Muslim & Saheeh Bukhari]