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CHARITY

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“My father, Yazid, gave several dinars (gold coins) in charity and left them in the care of a man in the mosque. I went to that man and brought the dinars back to my father. He said: 'By Allah, I did not mean these for you.' So we went to the Prophet, the Messenger of Allah, praise and peace be upon him, and submitted the matter to him. He said: 'Yazid, for you there is what you intended and Ma'an for you what you have taken.'”

Bukhari with a chain up to (Abu Yazid) Ma'an son of Yazid son of al-Akhnas (he, his father and his grandfather were among the Companions of the Prophet) said this.