What is the authenticity of the hadith: “Whoever gives in charity something from his body will be given in proportion to what he gave”?

The questioner : .
The student : It seems like...

The Shaykh : Where did you find it?

The questioner : This is from *Sahih al-Jami'*, number six thousand, one hundred and fifty-one.

The Shaykh : "Sahih al-Jami'".

The questioner : From *Sahih al-Jami'*.

The Shaykh : With this wording.

The questioner : With this wording, yes.

The Shaykh: From whom.

The questioner or .

The Shaykh : To whom is it attributed?

The questioner : The truth is, this has not become clear to me, but from it, below it, to the authentic ones, it seems to be to the book of authentic hadiths.

The Shaykh : This requires referring to the occasion on which the hadith was narrated, and that is why I asked you to whom it is attributed, so that if the person to whom it is attributed is present here, we can refer to him, because certainly the hadith has no connection whatsoever to what you might be implying. No, it has no connection. But what comes to my mind before I look into the occasion of the hadith is that the intended meaning is when a person is striving in the cause of Allah and something of his body is lost, then this merit is for him, and it is not by intention to cut off a piece of his body as charity. No, but in any case, you have *Sahih al-Jami'* and it is necessary.

The questioner : *Sahih al-Jami'*, yes.

The Shaykh : We know that this is present in the fifth volume of the first edition.

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh : This new edition is not reliable because the printer messed with it. Peace be upon you, so give one salam.

The questioner : One salam, if Allah wills.

The Shaykh : You enter and then shake hands, complete it.

The questioner: Yes.

Another questioner : That is, the evidence is that the person is the one who gives in charity intentionally, meaning there is...

The Shaykh: Yes.

The questioner : An intention to give in charity.

The Shaykh : Yes, jihad without intention.

The questioner : The act of giving in charity itself, if this happens, it comes as a result.

The Shaykh : You are taking the hadith now without its context.

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh : If you do that, you will get what you are saying, but not every hadith is taken only from its wording; it must be linked to its context. The closest example to you, and you must remember when I speak about the doubts of those who go to the extent of saying that there is a good innovation in Islam, they argue with the hadith: , and they interpret the hadith to mean whoever innovates a good innovation in Islam. If you return to the occasion in which the hadith was mentioned, you will find a vast distance between what the apparent meaning of the hadith indicates for them and what the hadith indicates when you link it to the cause. So, I advise now, at least temporarily, that we do not discuss the text of this hadith without referring to its context. But I say that the meaning that comes to my mind as a person who has some familiarity with the hadiths of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), what is authentic and what is not, is the meaning I mentioned earlier. As for the meaning that can be understood from the text without the link mentioned, secondly, this is impossible to be intended, because that would mean it is permissible for you, may Allah forbid, to cut off your hand and give it in charity to a man who is amputated in the hand and a man who is amputated in the leg, and the current problem is to give a kidney from the two kidneys. Certainly, this is not intended, because this involves harm, exposing oneself to harm in the way of doing good to others, and this is not permissible. To improve the situation of another without harming yourself, , this is what the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said. That is, if a person wants to give charity and he has relatives or brothers or so on, then the closest are more entitled to kindness, and this is the meaning of his saying (peace and blessings be upon him): . So, for a person to come and cut off a piece of his body claiming that he is giving in charity, this is certainly not permissible. Therefore, taking the apparent meaning of the hadith here is not permissible by any account. As for determining the intended meaning, it is necessary to refer to the context. Yes.