1. My father, may Allah grant him mercy, said: We were told by Sa’d bin Abdullah, from Qasem bin Muhammed al-Esbahani, from Sulayman bin Dawud al-Manqari, from Fudail bin ‘Ayyadh, that he said: Abu Abdillah, peace be upon him, said: Do you know who the avaricious is? I said: Is he the stingy? He said: The avaricious is worse than the stingy. Indeed, a stingy person is stingy with what is in his own hand, and the avaricious person is avaricious with what is in the hands of people as well as what is in his own hand, until he does not see in the hands of people anything except that he wishes for it to be his, (regardless if it is earned) through (the) lawful and the forbidden. He does not become satisfied, nor is he content, with what Allah, Exalted is He, has sustained him.
IsnādAbu - qu'Allah lui fasse miséricorde - a dit: Nous a informé Sa'd ibn Abdullah, de Al-Qasim ibn Muhammad Al-Asbahani, de Sulayman ibn Dawud Al-Minqari, de Al-Fudayl ibn 'Iyad, qui a dit: Abu 'Abdullah - que la paix soit sur lui - a dit:
