Mishkat al-Masabih
Mishkat al-Masabih 1829
عَنْ أَبِي رَافِعٍ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ بَعَثَ رَجُلًا مِنْ بَنِي مَخْزُومٍ عَلَى الصَّدَقَةِ فَقَالَ لِأَبِي رَافِعٍ: اصْحَبْنِي كَيْمَا تُصِيبُ مِنْهَا. فَقَالَ: لَا حَتَّى أَتَى رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَأَسْأَلَهُ. فَانْطَلَقَ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَسَأَلَهُ فَقَالَ: «إِنَّ الصَّدَقَةَ لَا تَحِلُّ لَنَا وَإِنَّ مَوَالِيَ الْقَوْمِ مِنْ أَنْفُسِهِمْ» . رَوَاهُ التِّرْمِذِيُّ وَأَبُو دَاوُد وَالنَّسَائِيّ
Abu Rafi said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ sent a man from Banu Makhzum to collect alms. He said to Abu Rafi, ‘Come with me so that you may get some of it.’ Abu Rafi said, ‘No,’ until he went to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and asked him. He went to the Prophet ﷺ and asked him, and he said, ‘Alms are not lawful for us, and the clients or freed dependents of a people are from among themselves.’ Al-Tirmidhi, Abu Dawud, and al-Nasa’i transmitted it.
Translation notes
The English witness explains Abu Rafi’s status as a freedman of the Prophet ﷺ and the legal implication; that biographical explanation is not present in the Arabic source passage.