40 Hadith on Wealth and Earning

40 Hadith on Wealth and Earning by Imam Joe W. Bradford is a collection of narrations focused on the themes of wealth, earning and financial ethics in Islam.

Bradford, an expert in Islamic finance and law, provides insight and commentary on these hadith to help readers understand the Islamic perspective on financial matters.

Why Forty, and Why These

The forty-hadith format follows a long scholarly tradition, built on the encouragement to preserve forty narrations for the benefit of the Ummah. What distinguishes a collection is the selection, and this one is unusually well chosen.

Money is the subject Muslims are most consistently careless about while being careful elsewhere. A person will check whether his food is halal and never examine where his income comes from, what his contract obliges, or whether his savings are held in something permissible.

What the Commentary Adds

Bradford works in Islamic finance professionally, and the commentary reflects that. He is not explaining the narrations in the abstract but against the instruments and contracts a Muslim in the West actually encounters.

That grounding is what makes the book usable rather than merely admirable.

Who It Is For

Anyone who earns, saves, borrows or invests. Business owners in particular. Also study circles — forty short narrations with commentary maps neatly onto a term.

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