Detestability of Over-Spending and Living in Austerity
Al-Kāfi|Volume 4|Book 1|Chapter 40
2ـ وَعَنْهُ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو عَنْ عَبْدِ الله بْنِ أَبَانٍ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ أَبَا الْحَسَنِ الأَوَّلَ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَم) عَنِ النَّفَقَةِ عَلَى الْعِيَالِ فَقَالَ مَا بَيْنَ الْمَكْرُوهَيْنِ الإِسْرَافِ وَالإِقْتَارِ.
2. It is narrated from him (narrator of previous Hadith) from his father from Muhammad ibn ‘Ammar from ‘Abd Allah ibn Aban who has said the following: “Once I asked abu al-Hassan, the 1st عليه السلام, about the expenses of one’s dependents. He (the Imam) replied, ‘It is between the two detestable limits: namely, excessive spending and severe austerity.’”
- Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (6/186)
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 2, p. 56