صحيح مسلم
Sahih Muslim
كتاب الزكاة
The Book of Zakat
باب مَثَلِ الْمُنْفِقِ وَالْبَخِيلِ:
Chapter: The Likeness of the giver and the miser
Hadith 1021
This hadith is listed as number 2360 in Maktaba Shamila
حَدَّثَنِي سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ أَبُو أَيُّوبَ الْغَيْلَانِيُّ ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَامِرٍ يَعْنِي الْعَقَدِيَّ ، حَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ نَافِعٍ ، عَنْ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ مُسْلِمٍ ، عَنْ طَاوُسٍ ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ ، قَالَ : " ضَرَبَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مَثَلَ الْبَخِيلِ وَالْمُتَصَدِّقِ ، كَمَثَلِ رَجُلَيْنِ عَلَيْهِمَا جُنَّتَانِ مِنْ حَدِيدٍ ، قَدِ اضْطُرَّتْ أَيْدِيهِمَا إِلَى ثُدِيِّهِمَا وَتَرَاقِيهِمَا ، فَجَعَلَ الْمُتَصَدِّقُ كُلَّمَا تَصَدَّقَ بِصَدَقَةٍ انْبَسَطَتْ عَنْهُ ، حَتَّى تُغَشِّيَ أَنَامِلَهُ وَتَعْفُوَ أَثَرَهُ ، وَجَعَلَ الْبَخِيلُ كُلَّمَا هَمَّ بِصَدَقَةٍ ، قَلَصَتْ وَأَخَذَتْ كُلُّ حَلْقَةٍ مَكَانَهَا " ، قَالَ : فَأَنَا رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ بِإِصْبَعِهِ فِي جَيْبِهِ : " فَلَوْ رَأَيْتَهُ يُوَسِّعُهَا وَلَا تَوَسَّعُ " .
Abu Haraira reported that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) gave similitudes of a miserly man and the giver of charity as two persons who have two coats-of-mail over them with their hands pressed closely to their breasts and their collar bones. Whenever the giver of charity gives charity it (the coat-of mail) expands so much as to cover his finger tips and obliterate his foot prints. And whenever the miserly person intends to give charity (the coat-of-mail) contracts and every ring grips the place where it is. He ( Abu Hurairah (RA) ) said: I saw the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) saying with fingers in the opening of his shirt: "If you had seen him trying to expand it, it will not expand."
