Al-Kāfi - The Book of Zakat

Chapter: Detestability of Over-Spending and Living in Austerity ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ وَأَحْ٠َّدِ بْنِ أَبِي نَصْرٍ عَنْ سَ٠ِهْرَانَ عَنْ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَ٠) قَالَ رُبَّ فَقِيرٍ هُوَ أَسْرَفُ ٠ِنَ الْغَنِيِّ إِنَّ الْغَنِيَّ يُنْفِقُ ٠َّا أُوتِيَ وَالْفَقِيرَ يُنْفِقُ ٠4.

A number of our people have narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad and Ahmad ibn Muhammad from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn abu Nasr from Sama'ah ibn Mihran from abu Basir from Abu ‘Abdillah (a.s.) who said: “Sometimes poor people may spend more excessively than a wealthy one. A wealthy person spends from what he has received, but a poor person spends from that which does not belong to him.’” وثق - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (6/186))