Arabic (Original)
حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ آدَمَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرٍ عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ عَنْ أَبِي صَالِحٍ عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ قَالَ قَالَ عُمَرُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ سَمِعْتُ فُلَانًا يَقُولُ خَيْرًا ذَكَرَ أَنَّكَ أَعْطَيْتَهُ دِينَارَيْنِ قَالَ لَكِنْ فُلَانٌ لَا يَقُولُ ذَلِكَ وَلَا يُثْنِي بِهِ لَقَدْ أَعْطَيْتُهُ مَا بَيْنَ الْعَشَرَةِ إِلَى الْمِائَةِ أَوْ قَالَ إِلَى الْمِائَتَيْنِ وَإِنَّ أَحَدَهُمْ لَيَسْأَلُنِي الْمَسْأَلَةَ فَأُعْطِيهَا إِيَّاهُ فَيَخْرُجُ بِهَا مُتَأَبِّطُهَا وَمَا هِيَ لَهُمْ إِلَّا نَارٌ قَالَ عُمَرُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ فَلِمَ تُعْطِيهِمْ قَالَ إِنَّهُمْ يَأْبَوْنَ إِلَّا أَنْ يَسْأَلُونِي وَيَأْبَى اللَّهُ لِي الْبُخْلَ حَدَّثَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ وَسَمِعْتُهُ أَنَا مِنْ عُثْمَانَ حَدَّثَنَا جَرِيرٌ عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ عَنْ عَطِيَّةَ عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ فَذَكَرَ نَحْوَهُ.
English Translation
Yahya ibn Adam told us, Abu Bakr told us, from al-A'mash, from Abu Salih, from Abu Sa'id al-Khudri, who said: Umar said: "O Messenger of Allah, I heard so-and-so speak well, mentioning that you gave him two dinars." He said: "But so-and-so does not say that, nor does he praise it — I gave him between ten and a hundred," or he said, "up to two hundred. One of them asks me for something and I give it to him, and he goes away tucking it under his arm, when it is nothing but fire for them." Umar said: "O Messenger of Allah, then why do you give it to them?" He said: "They refuse anything except to ask me, and Allah refuses stinginess for me." Uthman ibn Muhammad told us — and I heard it myself from Uthman — Jarir told us, from al-A'mash, from Atiyyah, from Abu Sa'id, and he mentioned something similar.