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al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 2340

✧ The charity of the miserly

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أَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَفَّانُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا وُهَيْبٌ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ طَاوُسٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ «مَثَلُ الْبَخِيلِ وَالْمُتَصَدِّقِ مَثَلُ رَجُلَيْنِ عَلَيْهِمَا جُبَّتَانِ مِنْ حَدِيدٍ قَدِ اضْطَرَّتْ أَيْدِيَهُمَا إِلَى تَرَاقِيهِمَا فَكُلَّمَا هَمَّ الْمُتَصَدِّقُ بِصَدَقَةٍ اتَّسَعَتْ عَلَيْهِ حَتَّى تُعَفِّيَ أَثَرَهُ وَكُلَّمَا هَمَّ الْبَخِيلُ بِصَدَقَةٍ تَقَبَّضَتْ كُلُّ حَلْقَةٍ إِلَى صَاحِبَتِهَا وَتَقَلَّصَتْ عَلَيْهِ وَانْضَمَّتْ يَدَاهُ إِلَى تَرَاقِيهِ» وَسَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ «فَيَجْهًدُ أَنْ يُوَسِّعَهَا فَلَا تَتَّسِعُ»

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Aḥmad b. Sulaymān
  2. ʿAffān
  3. Wuhayb
  4. ʿAbdullāh b. Ṭāwus from his father
  5. Abū Hurayrah

✧ From the Prophet ﷺ: "The example of the miser and the giver of charity is like two men upon whom are two coats of mail of iron, with their hands forced to their collarbones. Whenever the giver of charity intends to give charity, it expands for him until it conceals his tracks. Whenever the miser intends to give charity, every ring contracts to its companion and shrinks upon him, and his hands draw together to his collarbones." I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: "He tries hard to widen it, but it does not widen."

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