سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) يَقُولُ شِرَاءُ الْحِنْطَةِ يَنْفِي الْفَقْرَ وَ شِرَاءُ الدَّقِيقِ يُنْشِئُ الْفَقْرَ وَ شِرَاءُ الْخُبْزِ مَحْقٌ قَالَ قُلْتُ لَهُ أَبْقَاكَ اللَّهُ فَمَنْ لَمْ يَقْدِرْ عَلَى شِرَاءِ الْحِنْطَةِ قَالَ ذَاكَ لِمَنْ يَقْدِرُ وَ لَا يَفْعَلُ .
Translation
A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ibn Mahboub, from Nasr Bin Is’haq Al Kufy, from Abbad Bin Habeeb who said, ‘I heard Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> saying: ‘Buying the wheat negates the poverty, and buying the flour initiates the poverty, and buying the bread is annihilation (of the wealth)’. I said to him<sup>asws</sup>, ‘May Allah<sup>saww</sup> Make you<sup>asws</sup> to remain! So (what about) the one who is unable upon buying the wheat?’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘That is for the one who is able, but does not do it’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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