Hadith 36: Who is Truly Poor?

One day the Prophet asked his dear companions whether they knew who was poor. They answered that poor was one who had no dirham or dinar (money). He said:

“In my Ummah, the poor is that man who would appear on the Day of the Judgment before Allah, he had offered prayer, he had paid Zakat, he had observed fast, but he would have abused somebody, he would have falsely accused some one, he would have unauthorizedly taken some one else’s property, he would have murdered some one, would have hit some body. All his virtues would be given to his victims. If his virtues are finished before his wicked deeds are finished, then the errors and sins of the victims would be given to him and he would be thrown into the Hell.”

[Muslim]