Rights in Islam
Work, trade and money
What Islam gives people a right to — parents, spouses, children, orphans, neighbours, workers and the people you trade with. Every ruling here names the Quranic verse or the hadith it comes from, and says where the scholars differ.
Work, trade and money
The rights of a worker — and the hadith that is not from Bukhari
Three men Allah Himself opposes on the Day of Judgement, and one of them hired a worker and did not pay him. The wage agreed before the work…
Source: Quran 28:26-27, 65:6, 4:29, 83:1-3, 2:188; Sahih al-Bukhari 30, 2114, 2227, 2270; Sahih Muslim 1661; Sunan Ibn Majah 2443 (graded sound); Sunan Abi Dawud 3628 (graded sound) Work, trade and moneyThe rights in a loan — the longest verse in the Quran is about writing it down
The longest verse in the Quran is not about prayer or fasting. It is about writing a loan down. And the evidence runs both ways: the borrowe…
Source: Quran 2:275, 2:278-280, 2:282, 4:58; Sahih al-Bukhari 832, 2287, 2289, 2387, 2404; Sahih Muslim 1560, 1564, 1886, 2588; Sunan Abi Dawud 3628 (graded sound); Sunan Ibn Majah 2410 (graded sound) Work, trade and moneyThe rights in trade — an entire surah opens with woe, over a thumb on the scale
Surah al-Mutaffifin opens an entire surah with woe, and the offence it names is small: short measure. The Prophet put his hand into a pile o…
Source: Quran 2:188, 2:275, 4:29, 6:152, 17:35, 55:9, 83:1-3; Sahih al-Bukhari 2058, 2079, 2087, 2140, 2142, 2287, 2597; Sahih Muslim 102, 1412, 1513, 1532, 1605, 1607; Jami at-Tirmidhi 1209 (graded good); Sunan Abi Dawud 3451 (graded sound)Everything on this page is in the app too, and works offline.
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