Reports on hoarded wealth and stinginess with what is due on wealth

Al-Ahnaf bin Qays said: I was sitting in a mosque in Madinah when a man approached; no circle saw him except that they fled from him, until he reached the circle I was in. I stood firm while they fled. I said: "Who are you?" He said: "Abu Dharr, the companion of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)." I said: "Why do the people flee from you?" He said: "Because I forbid them from hoarding treasures." I said: "Our stipends have reached (a great amount) and increased; do you fear for us because of them?" He said: "As for today, no; but they are about to become the price of your religion, so leave them (the rulers) with it."

Zayd bin Wahb said: We passed by Sayyiduna Abu Dharr (may Allah be pleased with him) at al-Rabadhah and asked him about (why he was in) his dwelling there. He said: I was in Syria, and I recited this verse: "And those who hoard gold and silver and do not spend it in the way of Allah, give them tidings of a painful punishment" [al-Tawbah: 34]. Sayyiduna Mu'awiyah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "It is only about the People of the Book." We said: "It is about us and about them."

Masruq narrates that Sayyiduna Abdullah (bin Mas'ud) (may Allah be pleased with him) said: By the One besides whom there is no god, Allah will not punish a man who hoards (wealth) in such a way that one dirham touches another dirham or one dinar touches another dinar; rather, Allah will expand his skin until every dirham and dinar is placed (on it) separately.

Abu Wa'il said: I heard Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) say regarding the saying of Allah Almighty: "They will be collared with what they withheld on the Day of Resurrection" [Al Imran: 180]: They will be collared with a serpent with two black spots at its mouth; it will bite him, saying: "I am your wealth which you withheld."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "There is no owner of camels, cattle or sheep who does not pay their due, except that he will be made to sit for them on the Day of Resurrection on a level, barren plain, where every hoofed animal will trample him with its hooves and every horned animal will butt him with its horn. On that day there will be no animal among them without horns or with a broken horn." The Companions said: "O Messenger of Allah, what is their due?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Lending its stallion for mating, lending its bucket, lending it (to someone) to meet a need, milking the she-camel at the watering place (so that the poor may also drink), and giving a mount on it in the way of Allah Almighty."

Sayyiduna Abu Dharr (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) — or he said: I heard my beloved — say: "In camels (their due) is giving their charity. Whoever gathers a dinar or a dirham, or gold nuggets, or silver, and does not set it aside for a creditor nor spend it in the way of Allah, it is a branding iron with which he will be branded on the Day of Resurrection."

Ibrahim said regarding the saying of Allah Almighty: "They will be collared with what they withheld on the Day of Resurrection" [Al Imran: 180]: It will be a collar of fire.

Masruq said regarding the saying of Allah, the Pure: "They will be collared with what they withheld on the Day of Resurrection" [Al Imran: 180]: It refers to the man whom Allah Almighty blessed with wealth, but he did not give his relatives their due (from it). That wealth will be turned into a serpent for him, which will be put around his neck as a collar. He will say: "What have I to do with you?" (i.e. why are you clinging to me?) The serpent will say to him: "I am your wealth."