14. Care, social welfare and charitable institutions

Source / locator: Qur’an, al-Insan, 76:8. Arabic and Jalandhari: SurahQuran; Pickthall: Quranic Arabic Corpus.

Published English excerpt: And feed with food the needy wretch, the orphan and the prisoner, for love of Him,

Verification / translation sources: Verified Arabic and published translation excerpts. English: Marmaduke Pickthall. Urdu: Fateh Muhammad Jalandhari.

Relevance: Names vulnerable recipients, including a captive. The principle is relevant to humane care without relying on an unverified anecdote about a particular recipient.

Context / qualification: The published translations resolve “ʿala hubbihi” differently: Pickthall connects it with love of Him; Jalandhari with the giver’s desire for food. Both are reproduced unchanged.

Best use: Argument

Verify: Arabic / Jalandhari | Pickthall

Source / locator: Sahih al-Bukhari, Book of Medicine; chapter 1, no. 5678. Narrator: Abu Hurayra.

Published English excerpt: There is no disease that Allah has created, except that He also has created its treatment.

Verification / translation sources: Sahih: included in Sahih al-Bukhari. Arabic and established English excerpt checked on Sunnah.com; its numbering is used. Urdu: Maulana Dawud Raz, as displayed by IslamicUrduBooks; the matching text, not only the page title, was checked.

Relevance: Supports seeking remedies as compatible with faith. It does not establish the efficacy of an untested treatment or replace medical evidence.

Best use: Argument

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Source / locator: Sahih al-Bukhari, Book of Divorce; chapter 25, no. 5304. Narrator: Sahl ibn Sad.

Published English excerpt: I and the one who looks after an orphan will be like this in Paradise,

Verification / translation sources: Sahih: included in Sahih al-Bukhari. Arabic and established English excerpt checked on Sunnah.com; its numbering is used. Urdu: Maulana Dawud Raz, as displayed by IslamicUrduBooks; the matching text, not only the page title, was checked.

Relevance: Commends sustained care, not merely an abstract sentiment. The narrator describes the Prophet indicating proximity with his index and middle fingers.

Best use: Argument

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Source / locator: Sahih al-Bukhari, Book of Patients; chapter 4, no. 5649. Narrator: Abu Musa al-Ashari.

Published English excerpt: Feed the hungry, visit the sick, and set free the captives.

Verification / translation sources: Sahih: included in Sahih al-Bukhari. Arabic and established English excerpt checked on Sunnah.com; its numbering is used. Urdu: Maulana Dawud Raz, as displayed by IslamicUrduBooks; the matching text, not only the page title, was checked.

Relevance: Brings three practical social duties together. Captive relief here is not a direction to disregard lawful judicial process.

Best use: Argument

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Source / locator: Sahih al-Bukhari, Book of Medicine; chapter 30, no. 5728. Narrator: Usama ibn Zayd, reporting to Sad (Arabic chain).

Published English excerpt: If you hear of an outbreak of plague in a land, do not enter it;

Verification / translation sources: Sahih: included in Sahih al-Bukhari. Arabic and established English excerpt checked on Sunnah.com; its numbering is used. Urdu: Maulana Dawud Raz, as displayed by IslamicUrduBooks; the matching text, not only the page title, was checked.

Relevance: The full report also forbids leaving a place where plague has broken out while one is there. It is historical religious evidence for collective protection, not a substitute for current clinical guidance.

Context / qualification: The English webpage heading says “Saud”; the Arabic chain explicitly identifies Usama speaking to Sad. The narrator is recorded from the Arabic, not inferred from that heading.

Best use: Argument

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Source / locator: Sahih Muslim, Book of Musaqah; chapter 26, no. 1605a. Narrator: Mamar.

Published English excerpt: He who hoards is a sinner.

Verification / translation sources: Sahih: included in Sahih Muslim. Arabic and established English excerpt checked on Sunnah.com; its numbering is used. Published Urdu translation not verified for this addition; no substitute translation supplied.

Relevance: A direct warning concerning ihtikar. The surrounding report itself raises a question about storing goods; the term must not be expanded silently into a ban on every inventory or reserve.

Context / qualification: The collection’s chapter specifies staple foods. Further differences about prohibited goods, scarcity and harm require separate juristic evidence.

Best use: Argument

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Source / locator: Ibn Kathir, Tafsir (Abridged), Qur’an 76:4–12; section “The Recompense of the Disbelievers and the Righteous; discussion of 76:8”.

Scholarly position / paraphrased argument: The commentary records both readings of “ʿala hubbihi”, preferring the reading that people give food despite wanting it themselves. It also records differing identifications of captives, including non-Muslims; it does not confine the discussion to one recipient group.

Verification / translation sources: Ibn Kathir (Abridged), English text on Quran.com, inspected at the verse-group and named passage. Compiler’s English–Urdu paraphrase; not a claim to have collated the complete Arabic edition.

Relevance: Explains the translation difference in the related Qur’anic entry and the wider humanitarian relevance of captive care.

Context / qualification: Reports about particular historical meals are not independently authenticated or separately counted in this entry.

Best use: Critical analysis / conceptual framework

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Source / locator: UNESCO World Heritage Centre, “Great Mosque and Hospital of Divriği”, World Heritage List no. 358; Outstanding Universal Value: Brief synthesis, hospital paragraph, and criterion (iv). Accessed 18 September 2026.

Scholarly position / paraphrased argument: UNESCO’s detailed account identifies the adjoining dar al-shifa as a hospital founded by Turan Melek and designed by Hurrem Shah in 1228–1229. It describes the linked mosque–hospital complex, its internal spaces and the hospital’s charitable character.

Verification / translation sources: Official institutional essay or heritage statement inspected. The English and Urdu text is the compiler’s paraphrase of secondary historical analysis; no underlying manuscript or archaeological object was independently examined.

Relevance: A concrete institutional precedent linking worship, care, craft and a woman’s patronage; complements the general charity evidence without duplicating it.

Context / qualification: The detailed section distinguishes the hospital’s patron from the mosque’s. No claims about free treatment for every patient, clinical effectiveness or an inspected waqf deed are added.

Best use: Critical analysis / conceptual framework

Verify: Source 1