The Prophet ﷺ said, "A man's child is from his earnings, indeed from the purest of his earnings, so eat from their wealth."
عن النبي ﷺ قال: ولد الرجل من كسبه، من أطيب كسبه، فكلوا من أموالهم.
Abu Dawud (3529) and Ahmad (24951) narrated it, and Hakim (2/45, 46) by his route, all of them from the hadith of Muhammad bin Jafar, who said, Shuba narrated to us, from Hakam, from Umara bin Umayr, from his mother, from Ayesha, and she mentioned it.Abu Dawud said afterward, "Hammad bin Abu Sulayman added to it 'when you need it,' and this is munkar," meaning with this addition. Hakim said, "This is a hadith that is sahih according to the standard of the two Shaykhs, though they did not include it. There is another chain from Sufyan Thawri with a different wording, and neither of the two chains invalidates the other."The hadith of Sufyan Thawri is what Abu Dawud (3528) narrated from Muhammad bin Kathir, from him, from Mansur, from Ibrahim, from Umara bin Umayr, from his paternal aunt, that she asked Ayesha, "There is an orphan in my care, may I eat from his wealth?" She said, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Among the best things a man eats is from his own earnings, and his child's earnings are from his own earnings."Nasai (4449) and Ahmad (24032) also narrated it, both from the hadith of Sufyan, except that neither of them mentioned the story.Amash also narrated it, and there was disagreement over his chain. Sufyan narrated it from him, from Ibrahim, just as Mansur narrated it. Nasai (4450) and Ahmad (24135) narrated it by this route.Yahya bin Zakariya bin Abu Zaida narrated it from Amash, from Umara bin Umayr, from his paternal aunt, from Ayesha, and she mentioned the same. Ibn Majah (2290) and Tirmidhi (1358) narrated it by this route, and Tirmidhi said, "A hasan sahih hadith." He also said, "Some of them narrated this from Umara bin Umayr, from his mother, from Ayesha, but most of them said, from his paternal aunt, from Ayesha."Fadl bin Musa narrated it, as found in Nasai (4451), as did Abu Muawiya Muhammad bin Khazim Adarir, as found in Ibn Majah (2137) and Ibn Hibban (4261), and Sharik, as found also in Ibn Hibban (4260) and Ahmad (25845). Likewise Yaala bin Ubayd, as Bayhaqi (7/480) indicated. All of these, meaning Fadl bin Musa, Abu Muawiya, Sharik, and Yaala bin Ubayd, narrated it from Amash, from Ibrahim, from Aswad, from Ayesha, and she mentioned the same.Bayhaqi said, "This chain is not preserved as such."Bayhaqi also transmitted from Sufyan bin Abdul-Malik, who said, "I asked Abdullah bin Mubarak about the hadith of Ayesha, 'their persons and their wealth are yours whenever you need them.'" He said, "Sufyan narrated it to me, from Hammad, from Ibrahim, from Aswad, from Ayesha." Sufyan said, "This is an error on the part of Hammad." Abdullah said, "I asked the companions of Sufyan about this hadith, and they had not preserved it." Abdullah said, "This is from his hadith through Umara bin Umayr, and Aswad does not appear in it, nor does the phrase 'when you need it.'" End.