قُلْتُ لِأَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) يَخْرُجُ الرَّجُلُ مَعَ قَوْمٍ مَيَاسِيرَ وَ هُوَ أَقَلُّهُمْ شَيْئاً فَيُخْرِجُ الْقَوْمُ النَّفَقَةَ وَ لَا يَقْدِرُ هُوَ أَنْ يُخْرِجَ مِثْلَ مَا أَخْرَجُوا فَقَالَ مَا أُحِبُّ أَنْ يُذِلَّ نَفْسَهُ لِيَخْرُجْ مَعَ مَنْ هُوَ مِثْلُهُ .
Translation
Ahmad, from Ali Bin Al Hakam, from Ali Bin Abu Hamza, from Abu Baseer who said, ‘I said to Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup>, ‘A man goes out along with an affluent group and he is the least of them in things. So the group takes out the expenditure, and he is not able that he should take out the like of what they are taking out’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘I<sup>asws</sup> do not like it that he should humiliate himself. Let him go out with the ones who are like him’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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