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.’
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.’
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.’
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.’