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2616. It was narrated from Zaid bin Aslam that his father said: “I heard ‘Umar say: ‘I gave a horse to someone to ride in the cause of Allâh, the Mighty and Sublime, and the one who kept it neglected it. I wanted to buy it back from him, and I thought that he would sell it at a cheap price. I asked the Messenger of Allâh ﷺ about that and he said: Do not buy it, even if he gives it to you for a Dirham. The one who takes back his charity is like the dog that goes back to its own vomit.” (Ṣaḥīḥ)
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It is forbidden for the charity giver to retrieve his charity by making payment. It is quite possible that that person might give him concession out of consideration or veneration for him. However, some other person might purchase someone else's charity, because for him it does not constitute charity; it is rather a purchased commodity. Even so, by alteration in the status of a thing, its ruling also alters, as has come in the foregone Hadîth.
