Hoarding

The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Only the perfidious ones hoard.

The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Only an offender hoards.

Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Hoarding is the cause of deprivation.

Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Hoarding is the habit of the dissolute.

Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Hoarding is a vice.

Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Hoarding is the mount of hardship.

Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘One of the characteristics of the idiots is exhausting themselves by hoarding.

Imam Ali (AS) said in a letter he wrote to al-Ashtar when he appointed him governor of Egypt, ‘Know - along with this - that most of the merchants and traders are very narrow-minded, and awfully avaricious. They hoard goods for profiteering and fix high prices for goods. This is a source of harm to the people, and a source of shame for the governors in charge. So stop people from hoarding, because verily the Messenger of Allah (SAWA) has prohibited it.

Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘There is no good in any act of hoarding that brings loss to the people and inflates the prices for them.

Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘Truly Allah, Mighty and Exalted, showed His bounty to His servants in the seed, but He also plagued them with lice; otherwise the kings would have hoarded it as they hoard gold and silver.