Musnad Ahmad 9057
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حَدَّثَنَا عَفَّانُ حَدَّثَنَا وُهَيْبٌ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ طَاوُسٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ
مَثَلُ الْبَخِيلِ وَالْمُتَصَدِّقِ مَثَلُ رَجُلَيْنِ عَلَيْهِمَا جُنَّتَانِ مِنْ حَدِيدٍ قَدِ اضْطُرَّتْ أَيْدِيهِمَا إِلَى تَرَاقِيهِمَا، فَكُلَّمَا هَمَّ الْمُتَصَدِّقُ بِصَدَقَةٍ اتَّسَعَتْ عَلَيْهِ حَتَّى تُعَفِّيَ أَثَرَهُ، وَكُلَّمَا هَمَّ الْبَخِيلُ بِصَدَقَةٍ انْقَبَضَتْ عَلَيْهِ كُلُّ حَلْقَةٍ مِنْهَا إِلَى صَاحِبَتِهَا وَتَقَلَّصَتْ عَلَيْهِ قَالَ: فَسَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَعْنِي يَقُولُ فَيَجْهَدُ أَنْ يُوَسِّعَهَا فَلَا تَتَّسِعُ.
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAffān
- Wuhayb
- ʿAbdullāh b. Ṭāwus
- his father
- Abū Hurayrah
- al-Nabī ﷺ
✧ The example of the miser and the one who gives charity is like two men wearing iron coats of mail from their chests to their collarbones. Whenever the charitable person intends to give charity, it expands upon him until it covers his entire body, and whenever the miser intends to give charity, every ring of it constricts to its companion and tightens upon him. He said: I heard the Messenger of God ﷺ, meaning he said: He strives to widen it, but it does not widen.
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Other narrations of this report
Sahih al-Bukhari 5797Sahih Muslim 1021bSahih Muslim 1021cSunan an-Nasa'i 2548
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 57 AHأَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّصحابيعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 100 AHأَبِيهِثقةعن
- حدثناtrustworthy (thiqah)d. 131 AH
- حدثناtrustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 165 AH
- حدثناtrustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 219 AH
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 241 AHأحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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