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19-03-2024 |10 Ramaḍān 1445 AH

Hoarding

Description: The Prophet (S) said, ‘Only the perfidious ones hoard.’

رسولُ اللّٰهِ‏ِ (صَلَّيَ اللّٰهُ عَلَيهِ وَ آلِهِ) : لا يَحْتَكِرُ إلّا الخَوّانونَ.

Reference: [From Mizan al Hikmat -- Kanz al-’Ummal, no. 9738]

Description: The Prophet (S) said, ‘Only an offender hoards.’

رسولُ اللّٰهِ (صَلَّيَ اللّٰهُ عَلَيهِ وَ آلِهِ) : لا يَحْتَكِرُ إلّا خاطئٌ.

Reference: [From Mizan al Hikmat -- Kanz al-’Ummal, no. 9723]

Description: Imam Ali (a.s.) said, ‘Hoarding is the cause of deprivation.’

الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : الاحْتِكارُ داعِيَةُ الحِرْمانِ.

Reference: [From Mizan al Hikmat -- Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 256]

Description: Imam Ali (a.s.) said, ‘Hoarding is the habit of the dissolute.’

الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : الاحْتِكارُ شِيمَةُ الفُجّارِ.

Reference: [From Mizan al Hikmat -- Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 607]

Description: Imam Ali (a.s.) said, ‘Hoarding is a vice.’

الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : الاحْتِكارُ رَذيلَةٌ .

Reference: [From Mizan al Hikmat -- Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 112]

Description: Imam Ali (a.s.) said, ‘One of the characteristics of the idiots is exhausting themselves by hoarding.’

الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : مِن طَبائعِ الأغْمارِ إتْعابُ النُّفوسِ في الاحْتِكارِ .

Reference: [From Mizan al Hikmat -- Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 9349]

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

الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : كُلُّ حُكْرَةٍ تَضُرُّ بالنّاسِ وتُغْلي السِّعْرَ علَيهِم فلا خَيرَ فيها.

Reference: [From Mizan al Hikmat -- Mustadrak al-Wasa’il, v. 13, p. 274, no. 15337]

Description: Imam al-Sadiq (a.s.) 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.’

الإمامُ الصّادقُ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : إنَّ اللّه‏َ عزّوجلّ تَطَوّلَ علي عِبادِهِ بالحَبَّةِ فسَلّطَ علَيها القُمَّلَةَ ، ولولا ذلكَ لخَزَنَتْها المُلوكُ كما يَخْزُنونَ الذَّهَبَ والفِضَّةَ.

Reference: [Mizan al Hikmat -- Bihar al-Anwar, v. 103, p. 87, no. 3]

Description: The Prophet (S) said, ‘The hoarder is damned.’

رسولُ اللّٰهِ‏ِ (صَلَّيَ اللّٰهُ عَلَيهِ وَ آلِهِ) : المُحْتَكِرُ مَلْعونٌ.

Reference: [From Mizan al Hikmat -- Bihar al-Anwar. v. 62, p. 292, Kanz al-’Ummal, no. 9716]

Description: The Prophet (S) said, ‘The hoarder in our market is like the apostate in the Book of Allah.’

رسولُ اللّٰهِ (صَلَّيَ اللّٰهُ عَلَيهِ وَ آلِهِ) : المُحتَكِرُ في سُوقِنا كالمُلْحِدِ في كِتابِ اللّه‏ِ.

Reference: [From Mizan al Hikmat -- Kanz al-’Ummal, no. 9717]

Description: The Prophet (S) said, ‘What a wretched servant the hoarder is, for if Allah, most High, lowers the prices he is saddened but if He raises them he rejoices.’

رسولُ اللّٰهِ (صَلَّيَ اللّٰهُ عَلَيهِ وَ آلِهِ) : بِئسَ العَبدُ المُحتَكِرُ ، إنْ أرْخَصَ اللّه‏ُ تعالي الأسْعارَ حَزِنَ ، وإنْ أغْلاها اللّه‏ُ فَرِحَ .

Reference: [From Mizan al Hikmat -- Kanz al-’Ummal, no. 9715]

Description: The Prophet (S) said, ‘The hoarders and the murderers will be resurrected to occupy the same position in Hell.’

رسولُ اللّٰهِ (صَلَّيَ اللّٰهُ عَلَيهِ وَ آلِهِ) : يُحْشَـرُ الحَكّـارونَ وقَتَلَةُ الأنْفُـسِ إلي جَهَنّمَ في دَرَجةٍ .

Reference: [From Mizan al Hikmat -- Kanz al-’Ummal, no. 9739]

Description: The Prophet (S) said, ‘He who hoards food for forty days waiting for the rise of its price, he indeed disassociates himself from Allah and Allah disassociates Himself from him.’

رسولُ اللّٰهِ (صَلَّيَ اللّٰهُ عَلَيهِ وَ آلِهِ) : مَن جَمعَ طَعاماً يَتَربّصُ بهِ الغَلاءَ أربَعينَ يَوما فقد بَرِئَ من اللّه‏ِ وبَرِئَ اللّه‏ُ مِنهُ .

Reference: [From Mizan al Hikmat -- Bihar al-Anwar, v. 62, p. 292]

Description: The Prophet (S) said, ‘Any man who buys food and hoards it for forty days waiting for its demand to rise among the Muslims and then sells it, even if he were to donate its value in charity, it would not atone for what he did.’

رسولُ اللّٰهِ (صَلَّيَ اللّٰهُ عَلَيهِ وَ آلِهِ) : أيُّما رجُلٍ اشْتَري طَعاماً فكَبسَهُ أربَعينَ صَباحاً يُريدُ بهِ غَلاءَ المُسلِمينَ ، ثُمَّ باعَهُ فتَصدّقَ بثَمنِهِ لَم يَكُنْ كَفّارَةً لِما صَنَعَ.

Reference: [From Mizan al Hikmat -- Amali al-Tusi, p. 676, no. 1427]

Description: Imam Ali (a.s.) said, ‘The miserly hoarder gathers for those who will not thank him, and will come to Him who will not excuse him.’

الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : المُحتَكِرُ البَخيلُ جامعٌ لمَن لا يَشْكُرُهُ ، وقادِمٌ علي مَنْ لا يَعْذِرُهُ .

Reference: [From Mizan al Hikmat -- Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 1842]