Shu'ab al-Iman (al-Bayhaqi) 10333
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أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو الْحُسَيْنِ بْنُ بُشْرَانَ، أَنَا أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ الرَّزَّازُ، نَا سَعْدَانُ بْنُ نَصْرٍ، نَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي الزِّنَادِ، عَنِ الْأَعْرَجِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ يَبْلُغُ
بِهِ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ: " مَثَلُ الْمُنْفِقِ وَالْبَخِيلِ كَمَثَلِ رَجُلٍ عَلَيْهِ جُبَّتَانِ أَوْ جُنَّتَانِ مِنْ حَدِيدٍ مِنْ لَدُنْ ثُدِيِّهِمَا إِلَى تَرَاقِيهِمَا، فَإِذَا أَرَادَ الْمُنْفِقُ أَنْ يُنْفِقَ سَبَغَتْ عَلَيْهِ الدِّرْعُ، أَوْ مَرَّتْ حَتَّى تَحَسِرَ ثِيَابَهُ، وَيَقْفُوَ أَثَرُهُ، وَإِذَا أَرَادَ الْبَخِيلُ أَنْ يُنْفِقَ قَلَصَتْ عَنْهُ - يَعْنِي: الدِّرْعَ - وَلَزِمَتْ كُلُّ حَلْقَةٍ مَوْضِعَهَا حَتَّى أَخَذَتْ بِعُنُقِهِ أَوْ بِتَرْقُوَتِهِ، فَهُوَ يُوَسِّعُهَا وَلَا تَتَّسِعُ، فَهُوَ يُوَسِّعُهَا وَهِيَ لَا تَتَّسِعُ ".
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machine translationAbū al-Ḥusayn b. Bishrān informed us: Abū Jaʿfar al-Razzāz informed us: Saʿdān b. Naṣr narrated to us: Sufyān b. ʿUyaynah narrated to us, from Abū al-Zinād, from al-Aʿraj, from Abū Hurayrah, attributing it (to the Prophet).
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…the Prophet ﷺ said: "The likeness of the one who spends and the miser is like two men wearing two iron cloaks or two iron coats of mail, from their breasts to their collarbones. When the one who spends wants to spend, the coat of mail extends over him, or it passes down until it covers his clothes and effaces his footprints. But when the miser wants to spend, it contracts on him - meaning the coat of mail - and every ring clings to its place until it grips his neck or his collarbone. He tries to widen it but it does not widen; he tries to widen it but it does not widen."
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رَوَاهُ مُسْلِمٌ، عَنْ عَمْرٍو النَّاقِدِ، عَنْ سُفْيَانَ، وَأَخْرَجَاهُ مِنْ حَدِيثِ طَاوُسٍ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ
machine translationMuslim narrated it from ʿAmr al-Nāqid, from Sufyān, and the two (al-Bukhārī and Muslim) transmitted it from the hadith of Ṭāwūs, from Abū Hurayrah.
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