Ghurar al-Ḥikam

The Miser and the Avaricious

Volume 1 29 narrations
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Greed/Stinginess 29 Wealth/Materialism 2 Good Company 2 Spending in God's Path 2 Envy (Hasad) 1 Relatives/Kinship 1 Marriage 1 The Poor and Needy 1 Intellect/Reason 1 Hellfire 1

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hadith 1008
Imam Ali (AS) said, A miser is stingy towards himself with little of his worldly possessions and leaves all the rest for his heirs.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : البَخيلُ يَبْخَلُ على نَفْسِهِ بِاليَسيرِ مِنْ دُنياهُ وَ يَسْمَحُ لِوُرَّاثهِ بِكُلِّها
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 1009
Imam Ali (AS) said, A miser gives up of more of his honour than what he holds of his possessions and loses multiple times more of his religion than what he saves of his property.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : اَلبَخيلُ يَسْمَحُ مِنْ عِرْضِهِ بِأكثَرَ مِمّا أمْسَكَ مِنْ عَرَضِهِ و يُضَيِّعُ مِنْ دينِهِ أضعافَ ما حَفِظَ مِنْ نَشَبِهِ
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 1010
Imam Ali (AS) said, The farthest of creatures from Allah, the Exalted, is the wealthy miser.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : أبْعَدُ الخلائِقِ مِنَ اللّهِ تعالى اَلبَخيلُ الغَنِيُّ
Tags Greed/StinginessWealth/Materialism
hadith 1011
Imam Ali (AS) said, The most miserly with his possessions is the most generous with his honour.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : أبْخَلُ النَّاسِ بِعَرَضِهِ أسْخاهُمْ بِعِرْضِهِ
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 1012
Imam Ali (AS) said, The most miserly of all people is the one who is stingy to himself with his wealth, and [eventually] leaves it behind for his heirs.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : أبْخَلُ النَّاسِ مَنْ بَخِلَ على نَفْسِهِ بِمالِهِ وَ خَلَّفَهُ لِوُرّاثهِ
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 1013
Imam Ali (AS) said, The miser is dispraised, the envious is disheartened.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : البَخيلُ مَذْمُومٌ اَلْحَسُودُ مَغْمُومٌ
Tags Greed/StinginessEnvy (Hasad)
hadith 1014
Imam Ali (AS) said, The miser is a treasurer for his heirs.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : اَلبَخيلُ خازِنٌ لِوَرَثَتِهِ
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 1015
Imam Ali (AS) said, A miser hastens poverty.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : البَخيلُ مُتَعَجِّلُ الفَقْرِ
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 1016
Imam Ali (AS) said, A miser is always disgraced.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : اَلبَخيلُ أبَداً ذَليلٌ
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 1017
Imam Ali (AS) said, A miser always comes up with excuses and pretexts.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : اَلبَخيلُ مُتَحَجِّجٌ (مُتَبَجِّجٌ) بِالمعاذيرِ وَ التَّعالِيلِ
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 1018
Imam Ali (AS) said, A miser is abased among those who are dear to him.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : اَلبَخيلُ ذَليلٌ بَيْنَ أعِزَّتِهِ
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 1019
Imam Ali (AS) said, I am amazed at the wretched miser who rushes towards the poverty that is fleeing him and loses the wealth that is seeking him; he lives a life of poverty in this world and is called to account with the reckoning of the wealthy in the Hereafter.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : عَجِبْتُ لِلْشَّقِيِّ البَخيلِ يَتَعَجَّلُ الفَقْرَ الَّذي مِنْهُ هَرَبَ وَ يَفُوتُهُ الغِنى الَّذي إيّاهُ طَلَبَ فَيَعيشُ فِي الدُّنيا عَيْشَ الفُقَراءِ وَ يُحاسَبُ فِي الآخِرَةِ حِسابَ الأغْنياءِ
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 1020
Imam Ali (AS) said, The avaricious has no friend.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : لَيْسَ لِشَحيح رَفيقٌ
Tags Greed/StinginessGood Company
hadith 1021
Imam Ali (AS) said, The miser has no close friend.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : لَيْسَ لِبَخيل حَبيبٌ
Tags Greed/StinginessGood Company
hadith 1022
Imam Ali (AS) said, He who is stingy to himself with his wealth is not successful and leaves behind his possessions for others.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : لَمْ يُوفَّقْ مَنْ بَخِلَ عَلى نَفْسِهِ بِخَيْرِهِ وَ خَلَّفَ مالَهُ لِغَيْرِهِ
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 1023
Imam Ali (AS) said, One who withholds his hand out of fear of poverty has [actually] hastened poverty.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : مَنْ قَبَضَ يَدَهُ مَخافَةَ الفَقْرِ فَقَدْ تَعَجَّلَ الفَقْرَ
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 1024
Imam Ali (AS) said, One who is stingy with his wealth is abased.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : مَنْ بَخِلَ بِمالِهِ ذَلَّ
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 1025
Imam Ali (AS) said, One who is miserly with that which he does not [even] possess, has exceeded in meanness.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : مَنْ بَخِلَ بِما لا يَمْلِكُهُ فَقَدْ بالَغَ فيِ الرَّذيلَةِ (بالرَّذيلة)
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 1026
Imam Ali (AS) said, One who withholds his hand from [spending on] his family has only held back one hand from them but caused many hands to be withheld by them [against him].
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : مَنْ يَقْبِضْ يَدَهُ عَنْ عَشيرَتِهِ فَإنَّما يَقْبِضُ يَداً واحِداً عَنْهُمْ وَ يَقْبِضُ عَنْهُ أيْديَ كَثيرَةً مِنْهُمْ
Tags Greed/StinginessRelatives/Kinship
hadith 1027
Imam Ali (AS) said, One who is stingy with his wealth towards himself, is generous with it to his wifes [next] husband.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : مَنْ بَخِلَ بِمالِهِ على نَفْسِهِ جادَ بِهِ على بَعْلِ عِرْسِهِ
Tags Greed/StinginessMarriage
hadith 1028
Imam Ali (AS) said, He who is stingy to the one who needs what he possesses, Allahs wrath upon him increases.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : مَنْ بَخِلَ علَى المُحْتاجِ بِما لَدَيْهِ كَثُرَ سَخَطُ اللّهِ علَيْهِ
Tags Greed/StinginessThe Poor and Needy
hadith 1029
Imam Ali (AS) said, He who is stingy with his favours has not fastened his faith [and made it firm].
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : ما عَقَدَ إيمانَهُ مَنْ بَخِلَ بإحْسانِهِ
Tags Greed/StinginessSpending in God's Path
hadith 1030
Imam Ali (AS) said, He who is stingy with his favours is not intelligent.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : ما عَقَلَ مَنْ بَخِلَ بِإحسانِهِ
Tags Greed/StinginessIntellect/Reason
hadith 1031
Imam Ali (AS) said, While passing by some filth in a cesspit, he (‘a) said: This is what you were competing for yesterday. And in another narration, he said: This is what the misers were stingy with.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : وقال ـ عليه السّلام ـ: وَقَدْ مَرَّ بِقَذِر عَلى مَزْبَلَة: هذا ما كُنْتُمْ (عَلَيْهِ بالأمْسِ تَتَنافَسُونَ) تَتَنافَسُونَ فيهِ بِالأمْسِ وفي خبر آخر أنَّهُ قال: هذا ما بَخِلَ بِهِ الباخِلُونَ
Tags Greed/StinginessWealth/Materialism
hadith 1032
Imam Ali (AS) said, Woe to the miser who hastens towards the poverty which has fled from him and abandons the wealth that has sought him.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : وَيْحَ البَخيلِ المُتَعَجِّلِ الفَقْرَ الَّذي مِنهُ هَرَبَ وَ التَّارِكِ الغِنَى الَّذي إيَّاهُ طَلَبَ
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 1033
Imam Ali (AS) said, Do not be stingy by acting tightfistedly; and do not waste by acting extravagantly.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : لاتَبْخَلْ فَتُقَتِّرَ وَ لا تُسْرِفْ فَتُفْرِطَ
Tags Greed/StinginessSpending in God's Path
hadith 1034
Imam Ali (AS) said, There is no magnanimity in a miser.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : لامُرُوَّةَ لِبَخيل
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 1035
Imam Ali (AS) said, Nothing holds back wealth except stinginess, and a miser is blameworthy and liable for punishment.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : لايُبْقِى المالَ إلاَّ البُخْلُ وَ البَخيلُ مُعاقَبٌ مَلُومٌ
Tags Greed/Stinginess
hadith 1036
Imam Ali (AS) said, A miser is rebuked in this world, and punished and chastised in the Hereafter.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : اَلباخِلُ فيِ الدُّنيا مَذْمُومٌ وفيِ الآخِرَةِ مُعَذَّبٌ مَلُومٌ
Tags Greed/StinginessHellfire