Accepting An Unintended Worldly Benefit For Worship
@Irfan76 sir there’s a hadith which goes like this Hadith No: 2157 Narrated/Authority of Ubadah bin Samit “I taught people from Ahtus-Suffah” Qur’an and how to write, and one of them gave me a bow. I said: ‘It is not money, and I can shoot (with it) for the sake of Allah., I asked the Messenger of Allah (saw) about it and he said: ‘If it would please you to have a necklace of fire placed around your neck, then accept it.'” here it seems that the man who was teaching the Quran at first was doing it for Allah, but then when he was presented with a gift. then such a warning was given. so how to look into this?
@Irfan76 okay sir but sir the explanation you mentioned that prophet might not would have been pleased with him taking a worldly benefit for worldly service, but sir this explanation also feels not suitable, because sir even if it was a religious service and hence a religious deed, the man himself did not intended to demand or wanted that bow as a payment for it. but he was himself presented as a gift automatically and he just wanted to accept it etc. now if not demanded but still a worldly benefit comes and a person accepts the present, then it should not have an effect on reward of deed hence maybe nothing wrong in it, as you explained but then prophet would disallowed it , and would have allowed it. and secondly not only just disallow but a warning of hell was also given etc. one of the explanation shown by sir Umer, that was comparatively more better intellectually was that, people of ahl us suffah were extremely extremely poor and had almost zero. so one of them gave a bow in return for Quran so prophet did not wanted the companion to take any sort of gift from them because of financial crisis. just as someone morally sound would not like an extremely poor person with just a bunch of goats as property to cut a goat for him in dinner as mehman nawaazi. so maybe there’s a possibility that the person from ahl us suffah felt morally embarrassed that he’s learning from that companion but is not giving anything in return and so in return he gave a bow by himself to get over with embarrassment in his mind etc