Arabic (Original)
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرٍ الْحَنَفِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْحَمِيدِ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ رَجُلٍ مِنْ مُزَيْنَةَ أَنَّهُ قَالَتْ لَهُ أُمُّهُ أَلَا تَنْطَلِقُ فَتَسْأَلَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ كَمَا يَسْأَلُهُ النَّاسُ فَانْطَلَقْتُ أَسْأَلُهُ فَوَجَدْتُهُ قَائِمًا يَخْطُبُ وَهُوَ يَقُولُ مَنْ اسْتَعَفَّ أَعَفَّهُ اللَّهُ وَمَنْ اسْتَغْنَى أَغْنَاهُ اللَّهُ وَمَنْ سَأَلَ النَّاسَ وَلَهُ عِدْلُ خَمْسِ أَوَاقٍ فَقَدْ سَأَلَ إِلْحَافًا فَقُلْتُ بَيْنِي وَبَيْنَ نَفْسِي لَنَاقَةٌ لَهُ هِيَ خَيْرٌ مِنْ خَمْسِ أَوَاقٍ وَلِغُلَامِهِ نَاقَةٌ أُخْرَى هِيَ خَيْرٌ مِنْ خَمْسِ أَوَاقٍ فَرَجَعْتُ وَلَمْ أَسْأَلْهُ.
English Translation
Abu Bakr al-Hanafi narrated to us: Abd al-Hamid b. Ja'far narrated to us, from his father, from a man of Muzayna, that his mother said to him: "Will you not go and ask the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), as the people ask him?" So I went to ask him, and found him standing, delivering a sermon, saying: "Whoever seeks to abstain, Allah will grant him abstinence; and whoever seeks self-sufficiency, Allah will make him self-sufficient; and whoever asks people while he has the equivalent of five awqiya, has asked insistently." I said to myself: "He has a she-camel worth more than five awqiya, and his young servant has another she-camel worth more than five awqiya" - so I went back and did not ask him.