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Shia hadith/Al-Kāfi 4

Al-Kāfi 4, record 229 of the digital edition

Shaykh Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb al-Kulaynī · Detestability of Over-Spending and Living in Austerity

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Arabic text

9ـ عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ وَأَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ الله بْنِ سِنَانٍ فِي قَوْلِهِ تَعَالَى وَالَّذِينَ إِذا أَنْفَقُوا لَمْ يُسْرِفُوا وَلَمْ يَقْتُرُوا وَكانَ بَيْنَ ذلِكَ قَواماً فَبَسَطَ كَفَّهُ وَفَرَّقَ أَصَابِعَهُ وَحَنَاهَا شَيْئاً وَعَنْ قَوْلِهِ تَعَالَى وَلا تَبْسُطْها كُلَّ الْبَسْطِ فَبَسَطَ رَاحَتَهُ وَقَالَ هَكَذَا وَقَالَ الْقَوَامُ مَا يَخْرُجُ مِنْ بَيْنِ الأَصَابِعِ وَيَبْقَى فِي الرَّاحَةِ مِنْهُ شَيْ‏ءٌ.

Translation

9. A number of our people have narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad and Ahmad ibn Muhammad from al-Hassan ibn Mahbub from ‘Abd Allah ibn Sinan who has said the following: “This is about the words of Allah, most High, ‘Those who, when spending, do not do it excessively or with severe austerity, but with moderation.’ He opened his palm and tilted it a little to one side. About the words of Allah, most High, ‘Do not open your hand excessively . . .’ (25:67) he opened up his palm all the way saying, ‘Like this.’ He said, ‘Al-Qawam is when something is left in your palm and something is allowed to leave your palm.’”

Translation: Muhammad Sarwar — published with the edition, reproduced verbatim.

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Chain of narration (isnād)

  1. 9. A number of our people have narrated
  2. Sahl ibn Ziyad and Ahmad ibn Muhammad
  3. al-Hassan ibn Mahbub
  4. ‘Abd Allah ibn Sinan who has said the following

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  • Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi

    صحيح

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    Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (16/187)

  • Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi

    صحيح

    Published in Arabic as the scholar wrote it. No reviewed English rendering exists yet.

    Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 2, p. 57

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