رياض الصالحين
Riyad as-Salihin Hadith 559
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Chapter 59
Chapter context: Excellence of Generosity and Spending in a Good cause with Reliance on Allah
- باب الكرم والجود والإنفاق فى وجوه الخير ثقة بالله تعالى
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Original Arabic
وعن أبي هريرة رضي الله عنه أنه سمع رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم يقول: “مثل البخيل والمنفق، كمثل رجلين عليهما جنتان من حديد من ثديهما إلى ترا قيهما، فأما المنفق، فلا ينفق إلا سبغت، أو وفرت على جلده حتى تخفى بنانه، وتعفو أثره، وأما البخيل، فلا يريد أن ينفق شيئاً إلا لزقت كل حلقةْ مكانها، فهو يوسعها فلا تتسع” ((متفق عليه)) . و”الجنة” الدرع، ومعناه: أن المنفق كلما أنفق سبغت، وطالت حتى تجر وارءه، وتخفى رجليه وأثر مشيه وخطواته.
Translation
English translation
Abu Hurairah (May Allah be pleased with him) reported:
I heard Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) saying: "The case of a miserly man and a generous man who gives in charity is similar to that of two persons who are clad in armour from their breasts up to their collar bones. When the generous man gives in charity, his armour expands so much as to cover his fingertips and toes. When the miser intends to spend something the armour contracts and every ring of it sticks to the place where it is (sinks into his flesh). He tries to loosen it but it does not expand." [Al-Bukhari and Muslim].
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This is Hadith 559 in Riyad as-Salihin. It appears in Book 1, The Book of Miscellany, as in-book entry 559 under the chapter “Excellence of Generosity and Spending in a Good cause with Reliance on Allah.”
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