Mishkat al-Masabih
Mishkat al-Masabih 1879
وَعَن أم بجيد قَالَتْ: قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّ الْمِسْكِينَ لِيَقِفُ عَلَى بَابِي حَتَّى أَسْتَحْيِيَ فَلَا أَجِدُ فِي بَيْتِي مَا أَدْفَعُ فِي يَدِهِ. فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «ادْفَعِي فِي يَدِهِ وَلَوْ ظِلْفًا مُحْرَقًا» . رَوَاهُ أَحْمَدُ وَأَبُو دَاوُد وَالتِّرْمِذِيّ
Umm Bujayd said: I said, ‘Messenger of Allah, a poor person stands at my door until I feel ashamed, yet I have nothing in my house to put in his hand.’ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, ‘Put something in his hand, even if it is a burnt hoof.’ Ahmad, Abu Dawud, and al-Tirmidhi transmitted it.
Translation notes
The Arabic gives the striking example of a burnt hoof as something to give; al-Tirmidhi’s grading in the English witness is not present in the Arabic source passage.