"AND THEY ASK YOU AS TO WHAT THEY SHOULD SPEND. SAY, "THE SURPLUS". (SURAH AL-BAQARAH:219)
The statement about spending 'the surplus' (al-afw), that which is extra to needs, has been interpreted as an obligatory injunction by the blessed Companion Hazrat Abu Dharr al-Ghifari RAA and others. According to them, it is not permissible to hold in one's possession any money or materials surplus to one's needs even after paying of Zakah and all rights due, and that it is necessary (Wajib) to give everything extra to needs as charity (sadaqah). However, the majority of Companions, their successors (the Tabi'in) and the great imams of the faith interpret this Quranic verse as saying that whatever (Nafl sadaqah) is spent in the way of Allah should be surplus to needs, and not that whatever is surplus to needs should be given as charity (sadaqah).
From Ma'ariful Quran, by Mufti Muhammad Shafi RE
The statement about spending 'the surplus' (al-afw), that which is extra to needs, has been interpreted as an obligatory injunction by the blessed Companion Hazrat Abu Dharr al-Ghifari RAA and others. According to them, it is not permissible to hold in one's possession any money or materials surplus to one's needs even after paying of Zakah and all rights due, and that it is necessary (Wajib) to give everything extra to needs as charity (sadaqah). However, the majority of Companions, their successors (the Tabi'in) and the great imams of the faith interpret this Quranic verse as saying that whatever (Nafl sadaqah) is spent in the way of Allah should be surplus to needs, and not that whatever is surplus to needs should be given as charity (sadaqah).
From Ma'ariful Quran, by Mufti Muhammad Shafi RE
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