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Thawban narrated that the Messenger of Allah said:"The most virtuous of the Dinar is the Dinar spent by a man on his dependants, and the Dinar spent by a man on his beast in the Cause of Allah, and the Dinar spent by a man on his companions in the Cause of Allah." Abu Qilabah (one of the narrators) said: " He began with the dependants." Then he said: "And which man is greater in reward than a man who spends upon his depandants, having little ones by which Allah causes him to abstain (from the unlawful) and by which Allah enriches him

حدثنا قتيبة، حدثنا حماد بن زيد، عن ايوب، عن ابي قلابة، عن ابي اسماء، عن ثوبان، ان النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم قال " افضل الدينار دينار ينفقه الرجل على عياله ودينار ينفقه الرجل على دابته في سبيل الله ودينار ينفقه الرجل على اصحابه في سبيل الله " . قال ابو قلابة بدا بالعيال . ثم قال فاى رجل اعظم اجرا من رجل ينفق على عيال له صغار يعفهم الله به ويغنيهم الله به . قال ابو عيسى هذا حديث حسن صحيح