Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 10790
✧ On refraining from begging: who said the upper hand is better than the lower hand
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غُنْدَرٌ عَنْ شُعْبَةَ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ أَبَا حَمْزَةَ يُحَدِّثُ عَنْ هِلَالِ بْنِ حِصْنٍ قَالَ:
نَزَلْتُ دَارَ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ فَضَمَّنِي وَإِيَّاهُ الْمَجْلِسُ، فَحَدَّثَنِي أَنَّهُ أَصْبَحَ ذَاتَ يَوْمٍ وَقَدْ عَصَبَ عَلَى بَطْنِهِ مِنَ الْجُوعِ، قَالَ: فَأَتَيْتُ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ فَأَدْرَكْتُ مِنْ قَوْلِهِ وَهُوَ يَقُولُ: مَنْ يَسْتَعْفِفْ يُعِفَّهُ اللهُ، وَمَنْ يَسْتَغْنِ يُغْنِهِ اللهُ، وَمَنْ سَأَلَنَا إِمَّا أَنْ نَبْذُلَ لَهُ وَإِمَّا أَنْ نُوَاسِيَهُ، وَمَنْ يَسْتَغْنِ أَوْ يَسْتَعْفِفْ عَنَّا خَيْرٌ [١]مِنْ أَنْ يَسْأَلَنَا. قَالَ: فَرَجَعْتُ فَمَا سَأَلْتُهُ شَيْئًا
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machine translationGhundar, from Shuʿbah, who said: I heard Abū Ḥamzah narrating from Hilāl b. Ḥiṣn, who said:
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I stayed at the house of Abū Saʿīd, and the gathering brought him and me together. He narrated to me that one morning he had tied a stone around his belly from hunger. He said: So I came to the Prophet ﷺ and caught some of his words as he was saying: "Whoever seeks to be chaste, Allah will make him chaste; and whoever seeks to be self-sufficient, Allah will make him self-sufficient. Whoever asks us, either we will give to him or we will console him. And whoever is self-sufficient or seeks chastity from us is better [1] than one who asks us." He said: So I returned and did not ask him for anything.
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