Detestability of Over-Spending and Living in Austerity
Al-Kāfi|Volume 4|Book 1|Chapter 40
3ـ عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ رِئَابٍ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي يَعْفُورٍ وَيُوسُفَ بْنِ عُمَارَةَ قَالا قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَم) إِنَّ مَعَ الإِسْرَافِ قِلَّةَ الْبَرَكَةِ.
3. A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from al-Hassan ibn Mahbub from Ali ibn Ri’ab from ibn abu Ya’qub and Yusuf ibn ‘Ammar who have said the following: “Abu ‘Abd Allah ‘Alayhi al-Salam, has said, ‘There is very little blessing with excessive spending.’”
- Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (6/186)
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 2, p. 56