The meaning of openhandedness and its limitation

Maʿānī al-ʾAkhbār · Volume 1 · Section 285 · 4 narrations

Hadith 474

I said to him: What is the limitation of openhandedness? He said: That you extract from your property the right which Allah has obliged upon you, and you put it in its place.

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Hadith 476

Abu Abdillah, peace be upon him, said: Openhandedness is that a servant’s soul elevates above seeking the forbidden, and if he achieves the permissible, his soul appeals to spend it in (what brings about) the obedience…

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Hadith 477

The Messenger of Allah, Allah’s blessings be upon him and his Family, said: Openhandedness is a tree whose root is in Paradise and which shades upon this world. The one who adheres to a branch of it will be drawn to…

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