Musnad Ahmad 10770

Translation

✧ The Messenger of God ﷺ gave the example of a miser and a giver of charity as two men wearing iron coats of mail, with their hands forced to their chests and collar bones. Whenever the giver of charity gives, it expands over him until it covers his fingertips and obliterates his traces. And whenever the miser intends to give charity, every ring tightens and clings to its place. Abu Hurayrah said: I saw the Messenger of God ﷺ gesturing with his finger in his cloak; if you could have seen him trying to widen it, but it would not widen.

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 5797Sahih Muslim 1021bSahih Muslim 1021cSunan an-Nasa'i 2548

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Hurayrah al-Dawsī

   The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
   أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
   عن
2. 2
   Ṭāwūs b. Kaysān

   trustworthy (thiqah), jurist (faqīh), virtuous (fāḍil)d. 100 AH, or: 101 AH, or: 103 AH, or: 104 AH, or: 105 AH, or: 106 AH, or after: 110 AH
   طَاوُسٍثقة فقيه فاضل
   عن
3. 3
   al-Ḥasan b. Muslim

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. shortly after 100 AH, and before 106 AH
   الْحَسَنِ بْنِ مُسْلِمٍثقة
   عن
4. 4
   Ibrāhīm b. Nāfiʿ

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. between 161 and 170 AH
   إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ نَافِعٍثقة حافظ
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Abū ʿĀmir

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 204 AH or 205 AH
   عَبْدُ الْمَلِكِ بْنُ عَمْرٍوثقة
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his view
   أحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة

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