Rewards for
      donating blood
Question

                The blood bank gives
      gifts to blood donors, such as prayer-rugs, key-rings or some money.
      Please tell us what Islam says about these gifts.
Praise be to Allah.It is not permissible to sell blood, because of the
      report in Saheeh al-Bukhaari from the hadeeth of Abu Hudhayfah, who
      said: “I saw my father buy a cupper [a person who does cupping] and
      order that his tools be broken. I asked him about that and he said, ‘The
      Messenger of Allaah 
 (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him)
      forbade the price of blood, .....’” (Al-Bukhaari, 3/12,43; Ahmad, 4/308, 309).
      Al-Haafiz said in al-Fath: what is meant by the prohibition of
      blood is the same as the prohibition of dead meat and pork. It is haraam
      according to scholarly consensus, i.e., selling blood and taking its
      price. And Allaah knows best.