Mishkat al-Masabih

Mishkat al-Masabih 1852

Arabic hadith text

وَعَنِ ابْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «مَنْ أَصَابَتْهُ فَاقَةٌ فَأَنْزَلَهَا بِالنَّاسِ لَمْ تُسَدَّ فَاقَتُهُ. وَمَنْ أَنْزَلَهَا بِاللَّه أوشك الله لَهُ بالغنى إِمَّا بِمَوْتٍ عَاجِلٍ أَوْ غِنًى آجِلٍ» . رَوَاهُ أَبُو دَاوُد وَالتِّرْمِذِيّ

Translation

Ibn Masud said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, ‘Whoever is struck by poverty and lays it before people, his poverty will not be relieved. Whoever lays it before Allah, Allah will soon grant him sufficiency, either through an early death or through sufficiency that comes later.’ Abu Dawud and al-Tirmidhi transmitted it.

Translation notes
  • The source explicitly gives death as one possible means by which sufficiency may come, and later wealth or sufficiency as the other.