عَنْ هِلَالِ بْنِ حُصَيْنٍ قَالَ نَزَلْتُ عَلَى أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ فَضَمَّنِي وَإِيَّاهُ الْمَجْلِسُ قَالَ فَحَدَّثَ أَنَّهُ أَصْبَحَ ذَاتَ يَوْمٍ وَقَدْ عَصَبَ عَلَى بَطْنِهِ حَجَرًا مِنَ الْجُوعِ فَقَالَتْ لَهُ امْرَأَتُهُ أَوْ أُمُّهُ ائْتِ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَاسْأَلْهُ فَقَدْ أَتَاهُ فُلَانٌ فَسَأَلَهُ فَأَعْطَاهُ وَأَتَاهُ فُلَانٌ فَسَأَلَهُ فَأَعْطَاهُ قَالَ فَقُلْتُ حَتَّى أَلْتَمِسَ شَيْئًا قَالَ فَالْتَمَسْتُ فَلَمْ أَجِدْ شَيْئًا فَأَتَيْتُهُ وَهُوَ يَخْطُبُ فَأَدْرَكْتُ مِنْ قَوْلِهِ وَهُوَ يَقُولُ ”مَنِ اسْتَعَفَّ يُعِفَّهُ اللَّهُ وَمَنِ اسْتَغْنَى يُغْنِهِ اللَّهُ وَمَنْ سَأَلَنَا إِمَّا أَنْ نَبْذُلَ لَهُ وَإِمَّا أَنْ نُوَاسِيَهُ وَمَنْ يَسْتَعِفَّ عَنَّا أَوْ يَسْتَغْنِي أَحَبُّ إِلَيْنَا مِمَّنْ يَسْأَلُنَا“ قَالَ فَرَجَعْتُ فَمَا سَأَلْتُهُ شَيْئًا فَمَا زَالَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ يَرْزُقُنَا حَتَّى مَا أَعْلَمُ فِي الْأَنْصَارِ أَهْلَ بَيْتٍ أَكْثَرَ أَمْوَالًا مِنَّا
Hilal bin Husain says: I stayed with Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him). We gathered in a gathering, and Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated that once he woke up in the morning in such a state that, due to the severity of hunger, he had tied a stone to his stomach. His wife or mother said to him: Go to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and ask him for something and bring it. When so-and-so went and asked the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), he gave him, and similarly, so-and-so also went to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and asked, and he also gave him. I (Abu Sa'id) replied: I will first try to obtain something (by some other means), then I did so, but I did not get anything from anywhere. Eventually, I went to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), at that time he was delivering a sermon. At that time, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was saying: Whoever refrains from asking, Allah Almighty will save him, and whoever adopts self-sufficiency, Allah Almighty will make him self-sufficient, and whoever asks us for something, we will give him something. However, whoever refrains from asking us and adopts self-sufficiency, he will be more beloved to us than the one who asks. Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id (may Allah be pleased with him) says: After hearing this hadith, I returned and did not ask the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) for anything, but Allah Almighty gave us so much sustenance that I do not know of any household among the Ansar who is wealthier than us.