Waleed Basyouni – The Importance Of Caring For A Neighbor Is This An Authentic Hadith – Ask The Imam
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The speaker discusses the concept of "hasith" and how it relates to Muslims. They explain that Muslims have two rights over neighbors, one being their responsibility to care for their own neighbor and one being their relative responsibility to care for their relatives. The speaker suggests that looking after neighbors and helping others is important for a larger, more prosperous world.
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There is a hadith that says that he
is not a believer who goes to bed
full stomach and has eaten while his neighbor
is not or is hungry and his children
are hungry.
Is this hadith, first of all is it
an authentic hadith, secondly is it only for
Muslim neighbors or general?
This hadith, hadith Anas and hadith Ibn Abbas
both narrated similar that Nabi Salaam said not
a believer is the one who will have
a full stomach, you know fill his own
stomach while his neighbor is hungry and the
narration in Anas he said while he knows
that his neighbors are hungry and hadith Ibn
Abbas said and his next neighbor is hungry,
so the hadith reported by Tabarani and others
and some scholars consider it al-Hakim also
reported it and some said it is authentic
like al-Dhahabi and others and the concept
is absolutely correct you know that you should
look after your neighbor, you should care for
your neighbors as you care for yourself and
that applied to Muslims and non-Muslims but
always Muslims have two rights over you, being
a neighbor and being a Muslim brother, so
that doesn't take away the right of neighbors
to non-Muslims or the right of relatives
who are non-Muslims but a relative Muslim
have two rights over you, being a Muslim
brother and to you a sister and being
a family member, so always it add not
to negate when it comes to areas like
this, so definitely we should look after our
neighbors, we should care for our neighbors, we
should even the sadaqa that we give and
charity and the help that we give, we
can't just be helping the people far away
and we don't have anything to do with
helping the people next door and people live
among us, definitely this is something important for
us to keep in mind and that's why
you will find so many generation of the
sadaqa used to in the night will take
food literally and keep it in the door
of the neighbor that they think they are
hungry you know and you know without being
noticed the only time they figure out that
somebody this person used to distribute food in
the night either after they died the food
stop the live-in delivered so they know
this person who used to deliver it and
things of that nature so this is very
very moving any deal of sincerity you respect
the neighbor yeah so they don't feel like
you did a favor to them and that's
a spirit of the Muslim spirit of generosity
and it's just not in only in the
holiday season or in those specific months or
like Ramadan or anything no it is could
be year-long you know where we always
look after our neighbors and help them and
by the way neighbors here in the in
your neighborhood also it should be in a
larger sense countries and in America for example
we have neighbor countries we have countries close
by we should also look after them where
you are for example Egypt you have Sudan
you have Libya you have Chad you have
one and neighbor country also some ulama have
said that as well to make that in
a larger sense city next to another city
you know and then they hope that this
will give us the spirit of always looking
after one another if we start looking at
the people who closer to us fix it
and go farther go farther go farther we'll
see a bigger scale of change in the
world if it starts with our world first
may Allah make us among those who cares
about others and help others