Sahih Muslim, 2361

Rapporté par Abu Huraira رضي الله عنه : Le Messager d’Allah ﷺ a dit : « L’avare et le généreux sont comme deux personnes portant des cottes de mailles ; quand le généreux veut donner, elle s’élargit tellement qu’elle efface même ses traces de pas. Mais quand l’avare veut donner, elle se resserre sur lui, ses mains sont attachées à ses clavicules et chaque anneau est fixé à l’autre. » Il a ajouté : « J’ai entendu le Messager d’Allah ﷺ dire : Il essaiera de l’élargir, mais il n’y arrivera pas. »

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:. The similitude of a miserly man and the giver of charity is that of two persons with coats of mail over them; when the giver of charity intends to give charity, it expands over him (to much so) that the footprints are also obliterated. And when the miserly man intends to give charity, it contracts over him, and his hands are tied up to his collar bone, and every ring is fixed up to another. He (the narrator) said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: He would try to expand it. but he would not be able to do so