Musnad Ahmad 10770
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حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْمَلِكِ بْنُ عَمْرٍو حَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ نَافِعٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ مُسْلِمٍ عَنْ طَاوُسٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ
ضَرَبَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ مَثَلَ الْبَخِيلِ وَالْمُتَصَدِّقِ كَمَثَلِ رَجُلَيْنِ عَلَيْهِمَا جُنَّتَانِ مِنْ حَدِيدٍ قَدِ اضْطُرَّتْ أَيْدِيهِمَا إِلَى ثَدْيَيْهِمَا وَتَرَاقِيهِمَا، فَجَعَلَ الْمُتَصَدِّقُ كُلَّمَا تَصَدَّقَ بِصَدَقَةٍ انْبَسَطَتْ عَنْهُ، حَتَّى تَغْشَى أَنَامِلَهُ وَتَعْفُوَ أَثَرَهُ، وَجَعَلَ الْبَخِيلُ كُلَّمَا هَمَّ بِصَدَقَةٍ قَلَصَتْ كُلُّ حَلْقَةٍ وَأَخَذَتْ بِمَكَانِهَا. قَالَ أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ: فَأَنَا رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ بِإِصْبَعِهِ فِي جُبَّتِهِ، فَلَوْ رَأَيْتَهُ يُوَسِّعُهَا وَلَا تَوَسَّعُ.
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Chain of narrators
- ʿAbd al-Malik b. ʿAmr
- Ibrāhīm b. Nāfiʿ
- al-Ḥasan b. Muslim
- Ṭāwus
- Abū Hurayrah
✧ 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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