الأربعون 26 — كل سلامى من الناس عليه صدقة

الأربعون 26 — كل سلامى من الناس عليه صدقة

The hadith of Abu Hurayra (may God be pleased with him) that the Messenger of God said 'on every joint of the people a charity is due each day the sun rises', then enumerated among them judging justly between two people, helping a man onto his mount or lifting his goods onto it, the good word, every step walked to prayer, and removing harm from the road — the twenty-sixth of al-Nawawi's Forty and of Ibn Rajab's commentary; the two Shaykhs transmitted it through Hammam ibn Munabbih from Abu Hurayra (al-Bukhari 2707, 2891, 2989; Muslim 1009), the routes coming long and short; sulama is the plural of sulamiyya — the finger-joints, or what lies between each two joints, or every hollow small bone — so the hadith means a charity on every bone of the son of Adam; al-Bazzar transmits through Abu Salih from Abu Hurayra 'man has three hundred and sixty bones, or six and thirty joints, upon each a daily charity', then the descending ladder for one who finds nothing: commanding right and forbidding wrong, then removing a bone from the road, then aiding the weak, then at least sparing people his evil — with remarks on its chain; Muslim (1007) carries from A'isha 'the son of Adam was created upon three hundred and sixty joints; whoever mentions God, praises Him, declares His unity, glorifies Him, or removes a stone, a thorn or a bone from the Muslims' road, or commands right or forbids wrong, numbering those three hundred and sixty joints, ends his day having moved his soul away from the Fire'; Muslim also carries through Abu al-Aswad al-Du'ali from Abu Dharr in near wording ending 'and two rak'as performed at mid-morning suffice for all of that'; Ahmad and Abu Dawud carry from Burayda the three-hundred-and-sixty-joints wording with 'spittle in the mosque which you bury and a thing you move from the road — and if not, two mid-morning rak'as suffice you'; the two Sahihs carry from Abu Musa 'on every Muslim is a charity' with its ladder — working with his hands for his own benefit and alms, aiding the desperate needy, commanding right, and finally withholding from evil, 'for that is an alms from him'; and Ibn Hibban carries it from Ibn Abbas through a chain open to question — Samak from Ikrima is unsettled — though the hadith has what corroborates it (Jami' al-Ulum wal-Hikam pp. 546–565).