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Abdallah Bin ‘Amr Bin ‘Āsؓ said that he heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say, “There are forty acts, the best of which is giving food, if any are done seeking their reward and believing in their promise, Allah will grant them Paradise by this act.” (Bukhari).
Shaykh ‘Abdullah Bin Siddīq al-Ghumārī (d. 1993) wrote a small book enumerating these forty acts :
1. Feeding people in need and without remuneration
2. Removing a harmful object from the road
3. Feeding and watering animals
4. Visiting the sick
5. Befriending and visiting someone only for the sake of God
6. Belief in God and the Final Hour
7. Giving when you have little
8. Enjoying the good and forbidding the evil
9. Helping those with disabilities
10. Heling the misfortunate
11. Returning a salam greeting
12. Responding with blessings to the one who sneezes
13. Responding to an invitation
14. Following a funeral procession
15. Beginning a salam greeting
16. Giving sound advice
17. Removing harm from the mosque
18. Smiling in the face of your brother/sister
19. Guiding someone who is lost
20. Helping someone with poor eyesight
21. Forbidding the evil
22. Watering your brother’s/sister’s water bucket
23. Helping someone who is hard of hearing
24. Guiding the blind
25. Helping someone who has lost something
26. Helping someone who is weak
27. Helping someone with their means of transportation
28. Reconciling between two people in conflict
29. Speaking a good word
30. Helping someone who does not know how to communicate or does not know a particular language
31. Giving someone water who is thirsty
32. Helping someone draw water from a well with a short rope, while yours is long enough
33. Donating shoe or sandal laces to someone in need of them
34. Comforting someone who is lonely
35. Flexibility in buying and selling
36. Flexibility in matters of adjudicating cases
37. Being patient with one who is short on repaying a debt
38. Being flexible when one has the majority of a debt, but missing only a little
39. Concealing the mistakes of a believer
40. Consoling a believer’s loss.
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