Al-Kafi 5731

Translation

A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Abu Abdullah, from Al Hassan Bin Mahboub, from Malik Bin Atiyya, from Aamir Bin Juza’at who said, ‘A man came over to Abu Abdullah^asws, and he said to him^asws, ‘O Abu Abdullah^asws! Lend me (some money) up to (my) financial ease’. So Abu Abdullah^asws said to him: ‘Up to you realising a harvest?’ So the man said, ‘No, by Allah^azwj’. He^asws said: ‘So up to your profit in a trade?’ He said, ‘No, by Allah^azwj’. He^asws: ‘So up to a contract being fulfilled?’ So he said, ‘No, by Allah^azwj’. So Abu Abdullah^asws said: ‘Thus, you are from the ones for whom, in our^asws wealth, there is a right’. Then he^asws called for a bag wherein were some Dirhams, and he^asws inserted his^asws hand in it and took out a handful from it, then said to him: ‘Fear Allah^azwj and neither be extravagant nor be stingy, but be upright in between that. The squandering is from the extravagance. Allah^azwj Mighty and Majestic Said <span class="ibTxt"><a href="/#/books/quran:17#h26"><a href="/books/quran:17#h26">[17:26]</a></a> and do not squander wastefully</span>’. Al Hassan Bin Mahboub, from Sa’dan Bin Muslim, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^asws – similar to that’.

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