Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 2681
✧ Collection of chapters on voluntary charity
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حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْجَبَّارِ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الزِّنَادِ، عَنِ الْأَعْرَجِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ: قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ:
مَثَلُ الْمُنْفِقِ وَالْبَخِيلِ، كَمَثَلِ رَجُلَيْنِ عَلَيْهِمَا جُبَّتَانِ مِنْ حَدِيدٍ مِنْ لَدُنْ ثَدْيَيْهِمَا إِلَى تَرَاقِيهِمَا، فَإِذَا أَرَادَ الْمُتَصَدِّقُ وَالْمُنْفِقُ أَنْ يُنْفِقَ أُسْبِغَتْ عَلَيْهِ الدِّرْعُ أَوْ مَرَّتْ حَتَّى تَقَعَ عَلَى بَنَانِهِ وَتَعْفُوَ أَثَرَهُ، وَإِذَا أَرَادَ الْبَخِيلُ أَنْ يُنْفِقَ قَلَصَتْ، وَأَخَذَتْ كُلُّ حَلْقَةٍ مَوْضِعَهَا حَتَّى أَخَذَتْ بِتَرْقُوَتِهِ أَوْ بِعُنُقِهِ ". فَقَالَ أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ: أَشْهَدُ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ أَنِّي رَأَيْتُهُ يَقُولُ بِيَدِهِ: وَهُوَ يُوَسِّعُهَا وَلَا تَتَّسِعُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAbd al-Jabbār
- Sufyān
- Abū al-Zinād
- al-Aʿraj
- Abū Hurayrah
- al-Nabī ﷺ
✧ The example of the one who spends and the miser is like the example of two men upon whom are two iron coats from their chests to their collarbones. When the one who gives charity and spends wants to spend, the coat of mail becomes ample upon him, or it passes until it reaches his fingertips and covers his trace. When the miser wants to spend, it shrinks and every ring takes its place until it seizes his collarbone or his neck.” Abu Hurayrah said: I bear witness that I saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ saying with his hand: “He was widening it and it would not widen.”
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- The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AHأَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a scholar (ʿālim)d. 110 AH, or 117 AH, 119 AHالْأَعْرَجِثقة ثبت عالمعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), jurist (faqīh)d. 129 AH, or 130 AH, or 131 AH, also said: 132 AHأَبُو الزِّنَادِثقة ، فقيهحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an imam and a proof (ḥujjah), except that his memory changed towards the end of his life; he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs), but only from trustworthy narrators.d. 197 AH or 198 AHسُفْيَانُثقة حافظ فقيه , إمام حجة إلا أنه تغير حفظه بأخرة , وكان ربما دلس لكن عن الثقاتحدثنا
- no harm in him (lā baʾs bih)d. 248 AHعَبْدُ الْجَبَّارِلا بأس بهحدثنا
- d. 311 AHابن خزيمة
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