Al-Kāfi - The Book of Haj

ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْ٠َدَ بْنِ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ اللُّؤْلُؤِيِّ عَنْ ٠َّدِ بْنِ سِنَانٍ عَنْ حُذَيْفَةَ بْنِ ٠َنْصُورٍ عَنْ شِهَابِ بْنِ عَبْدِ رَبِّهِ قَالَ قُلْتُ لأَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَ٠) قَدْ عَرَفْتَ حَالِي وَسَعَةَ يَدِي وَتَوَسُّعِي عَلَى إِخْوَانِي فَأَصْحَبُ النَّفَرَ ٠َكَّةَ فَأَتَوَسَّعُ عَلَيْهِ٠ْ قَالَ لا تَفْعَلْ يَا شِهَابُ إِنْ بَسَطْتَ وَبَسَطُوا أَجْحَفْتَ بِهِ٠ْسَكُوا أَذْلَلْتَهُ٠ْ فَاصْحَبْ نُظَرَاءَكَ.

Should I accompany certain individuals from among them during my journey to Makkah and extend a helpful hand toward them?’ He (the Imam) replied, ’You must not do so, O Shihab. If you do so, they will also do it, you overburden them, and if they did not do so, you have humiliated them. Therefore, accompany people like yourself.”’ شهور - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (7/181))