Ahlul Bayt Fund – Gift-Lillah Donations only

Support the Respected Family of the Prophet ﷺ – The Ahlul Bayt

The Ahlul Bayt (Sada’at) are the noble descendants of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, and every believing Muslim holds them in the highest respect. Islam commands us to give Zakat and charity to help the poor and needy, including orphans, widows, and the vulnerable. However, donations such as Zakat and Sadaqa are not permitted for the Ahlul Bayt. During the time of the Prophet ﷺ, a special fund called Khums was established to support his family. Today, unfortunately, no such dedicated fund exists. Despite the immense respect the Muslim community has for the Prophet ﷺ and his family, there is often little practical support for his household. Can we truly be satisfied with merely professing love and respect for the Prophet ﷺ and his family if we do not care for the widows, orphans, elderly, poor, and unmarried young women among them? Where are these people to find food, medicine, and shelter, when the usual sources of charity are not permissible for their support?

Fountain Institute is committed to addressing this need. Your donations to the Ahlul Bayt Fund will be distributed wherever there is need among the Prophet’s ﷺ household, ensuring that widows, orphans, the elderly, the poor, and unmarried young women receive care, support, and dignity Inshā’Allāh.

Yazid b. Hayyan reported, I went along with Husain b. Sabra and ‘Umar b. Muslim to Zaid b. Arqam and, as we sat by his side, Husain said to him: Zaid. you have been able to acquire a great virtue that you saw Allah’s Messenger ( ‌صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم ‌ ) listened to his talk, fought by his side in (different) battles, offered prayer behind me. Zaid, you have in fact earned a great virtue. Zaid, narrate to us what you heard from Allah’s Messenger ( ‌صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم ‌ ). He said: I have grown old and have almost spent my age and I have forgotten some of the things which I remembered in connection with Allah’s Messenger ( ‌صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم ‌ ), so accept whatever I narrate to you, and which I do not narrate do not compel me to do that. He then said: One day Allah’s Messenger ( ‌صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم ‌ ) stood up to deliver sermon at a watering place known as Khumm situated between Mecca and Medina. He praised Allah, extolled Him and delivered the sermon and. exhorted (us) and said: Now to our purpose. O people, I am a human being. I am about to receive a messenger (the angel of death) from my Lord and I, in response to Allah’s call, (would bid good-bye to you), but I am leaving among you two weighty things: the one being the Book of Allah in which there is right guidance and light, so hold fast to the Book of Allah and adhere to it. He exhorted (us) (to hold fast) to the Book of Allah and then said: The second are the members of my household I remind you (of your duties) to the members of my family. He (Husain) said to Zaid: Who are the members of his household? Aren’t his wives the members of his family? Thereupon he said: His wives are the members of his family (but here) the members of his family are those for whom acceptance of Zakat is forbidden. And he said: Who are they? Thereupon he said: ‘Ali and the offspring of ‘Ali, ‘Aqil and the offspring of ‘Aqil and the offspring of Ja’far and the offspring of ‘Abbas. Husain said: These are those for whom the acceptance of Zakat is forbidden. Zaid said: Yes.

REFERENCE: Sahih al muslim 2: Chapter 145, Hadith 6225