"The best of deeds is to bring happiness to a fellow Muslim, or to relieve him of a debt, or to feed him."
— Prophet Muhammad ﷺ (Bayhaqi)
"The one who looks after a widow or a poor person is like a warrior who fights for Allah's cause."
— Prophet Muhammad ﷺ (Bukhari)
"Exchange gifts, as that will lead to increasing your love for one another."
— Prophet Muhammad ﷺ (Bukhari in Al-Adab Al-Mufrad)
"O son of Adam, spend and I shall spend on you."
— Hadith Qudsi (Bukhari & Muslim)
"If anyone strokes an orphan's head, doing so only for Allah's sake, he will have blessings for every hair over which his hand passes."
— Prophet Muhammad ﷺ (Ahmad)
"The one who strives on behalf of the widows and the poor is like the one who strives in the way of Allah."
— Prophet Muhammad ﷺ (Bukhari & Muslim)
"The hand that gives is better than the hand that takes."
— Prophet Muhammad ﷺ (Bukhari & Muslim)
"Every act of kindness is charity."
— Prophet Muhammad ﷺ (Bukhari & Muslim)
"قَوْلٌ مَّعْرُوفٌ وَمَغْفِرَةٌ خَيْرٌ مِّن صَدَقَةٍ يَتْبَعُهَا أَذًى وَاللَّهُ غَنِيٌّ حَلِيمٌ"
— Quran 2:263
"Whoever is kind, Allah will be kind to him; therefore be kind to people on earth. He Who is in heaven will show mercy on you."
— Prophet Muhammad ﷺ (Abu Dawud & Tirmidhi)
"He who removes a worldly grief from a believer, Allah will remove from him one of the griefs of the Day of Judgment."
— Prophet Muhammad ﷺ (Muslim)
"The merciful are shown mercy by the Most Merciful. Be merciful to those on earth, and the One in the heavens will be merciful to you."
— Prophet Muhammad ﷺ (Tirmidhi)
"Whoever relieves a believer's distress of the distressful aspects of this world, Allah will rescue him from a difficulty of the difficulties of the Hereafter."
— Prophet Muhammad ﷺ (Muslim)
"Whoever makes easy something for someone in difficulty, Allah will make things easy for him in this world and the Hereafter."
— Prophet Muhammad ﷺ (Muslim)
"And they give food in spite of love for it to the needy, the orphan, and the captive."
— Quran 76:8
"The best of charity is when a Muslim gains knowledge, then he teaches it to his Muslim brother."
— Prophet Muhammad ﷺ (Ibn Majah)
"مَّن ذَا الَّذِي يُقْرِضُ اللَّهَ قَرْضًا حَسَنًا فَيُضَاعِفَهُ لَهُ أَضْعَافًا كَثِيرَةً"
— Quran 2:245
"Whoever gives food to a fasting person to break his fast, shall have his sins forgiven, and he will be saved from the Fire."
— Prophet Muhammad ﷺ (Ibn Khuzaymah)
"And spend [in the way of Allah] and do not throw yourselves into destruction with your own hands. And do good; indeed, Allah loves the doers of good."
— Quran 2:195
"Richness is not having many possessions. Rather, true richness is the richness of the soul."
— Prophet Muhammad ﷺ (Bukhari & Muslim)