Sahih al-Bukhari
Sahih al-Bukhari 2066
حَدَّثَنِي يَحْيَى بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ، عَنْ مَعْمَرٍ، عَنْ هَمَّامٍ، قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ ـ رضى الله عنه ـ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ " إِذَا أَنْفَقَتِ الْمَرْأَةُ مِنْ كَسْبِ زَوْجِهَا عَنْ غَيْرِ أَمْرِهِ، فَلَهُ نِصْفُ أَجْرِهِ ".
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Yahya ibn Jafar told me: Abd al-Razzaq narrated to us, from Mamar, from Hammam, who said: I heard Abu Huraira, may Allah be pleased with him, narrate from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, who said: “When a woman spends from her husband earnings without his instruction, he receives half of its reward.”
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The Arabic does not explicitly say that the spending is charity; that detail in the English witness has not been added.
فَلَهُ نِصْفُ أَجْرِهِ
The pronoun refers to the husband, but the wording does not explicitly state who receives the other half.
Should the rendering remain limited to the stated reward for him?