Sometimes I- -asws order my -asws slave, ‘Prepare for me- -asws the pure flour with the oil, so I -asws massage with it’.
[11] Committing to a Loan/donation prior to acquiring wealth is from Extravagance: عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنْ مَالِكِ بْنِ عَطِيَّةَ عَنْ عَامِرِ بْنِ جُذَاعَةَ قَالَ جَاءَ رَجُلٌ إِلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) فَقَالَ لَهُ يَا أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَرْضٌ إِلَى مَيْسَرَةٍ فَقَالَ لَهُ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) إِلَى غَلَّةٍ تُدْرَكُ فَقَالَ الرَّجُلُ لَا وَ اللَّهِ قَالَ فَإِلَى تِجَارَةٍ تُؤَبُّ قَالَ لَا وَ اللَّهِ قَالَ فَإِلَى عُقْدَةٍ تُبَاعُ فَقَالَ لَا وَ اللَّهِ A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Abu Abdullah, from Al Hassan Bin Mahboub, from Malik Bin Atiyya, from Aamir Bin Juza’at who said, ‘A man came over to Abu Abdullah -asws , and he said to him -asws , ‘O Abu Abdullah -asws !
Lend me (some money) up to (my) financial ease’. So, Abu Abdullah -asws said to him: ‘You (wait until) I -asws acquire from harvest (from my land)?’ So the man said, ‘No, by Allah -azwj ’. He -asws said: ‘So up to your profit in a trade?’ He said, ‘No, by Allah -azwj ’. He -asws : ‘So up to a contract being fulfilled?’ So, he said, ‘No, by Allah -azwj ’.
فَقَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) فَأَنْتَ مِمَّنْ جَعَلَ اللَّهُ لَهُ فِي أَمْوَالِنَا حَقّاً ثُمَّ دَعَا بِكِيسٍ فِيهِ دَرَاهِمُ فَأَدْخَلَ يَدَهُ فِيهِ فَنَاوَلَهُ مِنْهُ قَبْضَةً ثُمَّ قَالَ لَهُ اتَّقِ اللَّهَ وَ لَا تُسْرِفْ وَ لَا تَقْتُرْ وَ لَكِنْ بَيْنَ ذَلِكَ قَوَاماً إِنَّ التَّبْذِيرَ مِنَ الْإِسْرَافِ قَالَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ وَ لا تُبَذِّرْ تَبْذِيراً . So, Abu Abdullah -asws said: ‘Thus, you are from the ones for whom, in our -asws wealth, there is a right’.
Then he -asws called for a bag wherein were some Dirhams, and he -asws inserted his -asws hand in it and took out a handful from it, then said to him: ‘Fear Allah -azwj and neither be extravagant nor be stingy, but be upright in between that. The squandering is from the extravagance. Allah -azwj Mighty and Majestic Said [17:26] and do not squander wastefully ’. الْحَسَنُ بْنُ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنْ سَعْدَانَ بْنِ مُسْلِمٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) مِثْلَ ذَلِكَ .
Al Hassan Bin Mahboub, from Sa’dan Bin Muslim, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah -asws – similar to that’.