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657. Abū Rāfi' (may Allāh be pleased with him) narrated that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ sent a man from Banū Makhzūm to collect charity, so he said to Abū Rāfi': "Accompany me so that perhaps you may have some of it." So he said: "Not until I ask the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ." So he went to the Prophet ﷺ to ask him, and he said: "Charity is not lawful for us, and to be the Mawla of a people is to be the same as them." (Sahih)
(Abū 'Eisā) said: This Ḥadīth is Hasan Ṣaḥīḥ. The name of Abū Rāfi', the Mawlā of the Prophet ﷺ, is Aslam, and the son of Abū Rāfi' is 'Ubaidullāh bin Abī Rāfi', the scribe of 'Alī bin Abī Tālib (may Allāh be pleased with him).
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Commentary
It is unanimously agreed that the Prophet ﷺ was not allowed to accept for himself any type of charity whether obligatory or voluntary. According to Imām Ash-Shāfi'i, 'for us' means the offspring of Hāshim and Abdul-Muṭṭalib; Amīr Yamānī also supported this opinion in 'Subūlus-Salām: 2/214.
