Musnad Ahmad 9057

Translation

✧ 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

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
   أَبِيهِثقة فقيه فاضل
   عن
3. 3
   Ibn Ṭāwūs

   trustworthy (thiqah), virtuous (fāḍil), devout (ʿābid)d. 131 AH, or 132 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ طَاوُسٍثقة ، فاضل ، عابد
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Wuhayb

   memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), trustworthy and reliable (thiqah thabt), but he changed slightly at the end of his lifed. 165 AH, also said: 169 AH
   وُهَيْبٌالحافظ ، ثقة ثبت ، لكنه تغير قليلا بآخره
   حدثنا
5. 5
   ʿAffān

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 219 AH, or 220 AH
   عَفَّانُثقة ثبت
   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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Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.