A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Al Hassan Bin Ali Al Washa, from Abdullah Bin Muskan, from Abu Baseer, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah -asws having said: ‘Neither pick (fruits) at night, nor harvest at night, nor slaughter (sacrificial animal) at night, nor sow at night, for if you were to do so, the contented one and the beggar would not come to you’.
So I said, ‘What is the contented one and the beggar?’ He -asws said: ‘The contented one is the one who is contented with whatever he is given, and the beggar is the one who would pass by you, so he would ask you; and if you were to harvest at night, he would not come asking; and these are the Words of Allah -azwj the Exalted and give His Right on the day of its harvest [6:141] – Meaning the bunch after the bunch when it is harvested; and when it comes out, so the handful after the handful; and similar to that is during the picking (of fruits), similar to that during the sowing.
And do not sow at night because you would give from the sowing just as you would give from the harvest’. [51] الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ مُعَلَّى بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ عَنْ أَبَانٍ عَنْ أَبِي مَرْيَمَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) فِي قَوْلِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ وَ آتُوا حَقَّهُ يَوْمَ حَصادِهِ قَالَ تُعْطِي الْمِسْكِينَ يَوْمَ حَصَادِكَ الضِّغْثَ ثُمَّ إِذَا وَقَعَ فِي الْبَيْدَرِ ثُمَّ إِذَا وَقَعَ فِي الصَّاعِ الْعُشْرُ وَ نِصْفُ الْعُشْرِ .