CHAPTER: Regarding Granting Provision To (Government) Employees.
Narrated Buraidah: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم as saying: When we appoint someone to an administrative post and provide him with an allowance, anything he takes beyond that is unfaithful dealing.
Narrated Ibn al-Saeedi: Umar reported me to collect the sadaqah (i. e. zakat). When I became free, he ordered to give me payment for it. I said: I have worked for the sake of Allah. He said: Take what you have been given, for I held an administrative post in the time of the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم, and he gave me payment for it.
Narrated Al-Mustawrid ibn Shaddad: Al-Mustawrid heard the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم say: He who acts as an employee for us must get a wife; if he has not a servant, he must get one, and if he has not a dwelling, he must get one. He said that Abu Bakr reported: I was told that the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: He who takes anything else he is unfaithful or thief. He said that Abu Bakr reported: I was told that the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: He who takes anything else he is unfaithful or thief.