A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Abu Abdullah, from his father, from Al Qasim Bin Muhammad Al Jowhary, from jameel Bin Salih, from Abdul Malik Bin Amro Al Ahowl who said, ‘Abu Abdullah -asws recited this verse [25:67] And they who when they spend, are neither extravagant nor stingy, but with moderation . So he -asws grabbed a handful of pebbles and captured these in his -asws hand, and he -asws said: ‘This is the miserliness which Allah -azwj Mentions in His -azwj book’.
Then he -asws grabbed another handful, so he -asws opened his -asws palm, all of it, then said: ‘This is the extravagance’. Then he -asws grabbed another handful, so he -asws opened part of it and withheld part of it and said, ‘This is the moderation’. [29] وَ عَنْهُ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبَانٍ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ أَبَا الْحَسَنِ الْأَوَّلَ ( عليه السلام ) عَنِ النَّفَقَةِ عَلَى الْعِيَالِ فَقَالَ مَا بَيْنَ الْمَكْرُوهَيْنِ الْإِسْرَافِ وَ الْإِقْتَارِ .
And from him, from his father, from Muhammad Bin Amro, from Abdullah Bin Aban who said, ‘I asked Abu Al-Hassan -asws the 1 st , about the spending upon the dependants. So he -asws said: ‘What is between the two (limits of) abhorrence – the extravagance and the miserliness’.
A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Al Hassan Bin Mahboub, from Ali Bin Raib, from Ibn Abu Yafour and Yusuf Bin Umara who both said, ‘Abu Abdullah -asws said: ‘Along with the extravagance is the scarcity of the Blessings’.