قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) تَدْرِي مَا الشَّحِيحُ قُلْتُ هُوَ الْبَخِيلُ قَالَ الشُّحُّ أَشَدُّ مِنَ الْبُخْلِ إِنَّ الْبَخِيلَ يَبْخَلُ بِمَا فِي يَدِهِ وَ الشَّحِيحُ يَشُحُّ عَلَى مَا فِي أَيْدِي النَّاسِ وَ عَلَى مَا فِي يَدَيْهِ حَتَّى لَا يَرَى مِمَّا فِي أَيْدِي النَّاسِ شَيْئاً إِلَّا تَمَنَّى أَنْ يَكُونَ لَهُ بِالْحِلِّ وَ الْحَرَامِ وَ لَا يَقْنَعُ بِمَا رَزَقَهُ اللَّهُ .
Translation
Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Shareef Bin sabiq, from Al Fazl Bin Abu Qurra who said, ‘Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Do you know who the greedy one is?’ I said, ‘He is the miser’. He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘The greedy one is worse than the miser. The miser is miserly with what is in his hands, and the greedy one is greedy upon what is in the hands of the people, and upon what is in his own hands until he does not see anything in the hands of the people except that he would crave it that it should happen to be for him, be it Permissible and Prohibited (means), and he is not content with what Allah<sup>azwj</sup> has Graced him with’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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