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📖 1 min readعن عدي بن عميرة الكندي رضي الله عنه مرفوعاً: «من اسْتَعْمَلْنَاهُ منكم على عمل، فكَتَمَنَا مِخْيَطًا فما فوقه، كان غُلُولا يأتي به يوم القيامة». فقام إليه رجلٌ أسودُ من الأنصار، كأني أنظر إليه، فقال: يا رسول الله، اقبل عني عَمَلَكَ، قال: «وما لك؟» قال: سمعتك تقول كذا وكذا، قال: «وأنا أقوله الآن: من اسْتَعْمَلْنَاهُ على عمل فلْيَجِيْء بقليله وكثيره، فما أُوتِيَ منه أَخَذَ، وما نهي عنه انْتَهَى».
If someone is appointed by us to a position of collecting the income of Zakah or the booty of war and he conceals from us a needle or less, then this amounts to misappropriation, and he will (have to) produce it on the Day of Judgment. Then a black man from the Ansār stood up and asked the Messenger (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) to release him of his assignment. He said: "What has happened to you?" The man said: "I heard you say such-and-such (the previous Hadīth)." He said: "And I say that (even) now: Whosoever from you is appointed by us to a position of authority, he should bring everything, big or small. He is to take what is assigned to him; otherwise, he should restrain from appropriating what is not his."
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