al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 2322
✧ The upper hand
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أَخْبَرَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ قَالَ
أَخْبَرَنِي سَعِيدٌ وَعُرْوَةُ سَمِعَا حَكِيمَ بْنَ حِزَامٍ يَقُولُ سَأَلْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ فَأَعْطَانِي ثُمَّ سَأَلْتُهُ فَأَعْطَانِي ثُمَّ سَأَلْتُهُ فَأَعْطَانِي ثُمَّ قَالَ «إِنَّ هَذَا الْمَالَ خَضِرَةٌ حُلْوَةٌ فَمَنْ أَخَذَهُ بِطِيبِ نَفْسٍ بُورِكَ لَهُ فِيهِ وَمَنْ أَخَذَهُ بِإِشْرَافِ نَفْسٍ لَمْ يُبَارَكْ لَهُ فِيهِ وَكَانَ كَالَّذِي يَأْكُلُ وَلَا يَشْبَعُ وَالْيَدُ الْعُلْيَا خَيْرٌ مِنَ الْيَدِ السُّفْلَى»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Qutaybah b. Saʿīd
- Sufyān
- al-Zuhrī
- Saʿīd And ʿUrwh Samiʿā Ḥakīm b. Ḥizām
✧ Sa‘īd and ‘Urwah reported to me; they heard Ḥakīm b. Ḥizām say: I asked the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and he gave me. Then I asked him and he gave me. Then I asked him and he gave me. Then he said: “This wealth is green and sweet. Whoever takes it with a generous heart will be blessed in it, and whoever takes it with an eager heart will not be blessed in it. He is like one who eats but is never satisfied. The upper hand is better than the lower hand.”
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