الاحتِكار

HOARDING

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2- The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Only an offender hoards.’
[Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 9723]

3- Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Hoarding is the cause of deprivation.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 256]

4- Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Hoarding is the habit of the dissolute.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 607]

5- Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Hoarding is a vice.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 112]

6– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Hoarding is the mount of hardship.’
[al-Kafi, v. 8, p. 19, no. 4]

7- Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘One of the characteristics of the idiots is exhausting themselves by hoarding.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 9349]

8- Imam Ali (AS) said in a letter he wrote to al-Ashtar when he appointed him governor of Egypt, ‘Know - along with this - that most of the merchants and traders are very narrow-minded, and awfully avaricious. They hoard goods for profiteering and fix high prices for goods. This is a source of harm to the people, and a source of shame for the governors in charge. So stop people from hoarding, because verily the Messenger of Allah (SAWA) has prohibited it.’
[Nahj al-Balagha, Letter 53]

9- Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘There is no good in any act of hoarding that brings loss to the people and inflates the prices for them.’
[Mustadrak al-Wasail, v. 13, p. 274, no. 15337]

10- Imam al-Sadiq (AS) 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.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 103, p. 87, no. 3]

11- The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘The hoarder is damned.’
[Ibid. v. 62, p. 292, Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 9716]

12- The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘The hoarder in our market is like the apostate in the Book of Allah.’
[Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 9717]

13- The Prophet (SAWA) 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.’
[Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 9715]

14- The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘The hoarders and the murderers will be resurrected to occupy the same position in Hell.’
[Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 9739]

15- The Prophet (SAWA) 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.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 62, p. 292]

16- The Prophet (SAWA) 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.’
[Amali al-Tusi, p. 676, no. 1427]

17- Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘The hoarder is deprived of his bounty.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 465]

18- Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘The miserly hoarder gathers for those who will not thank him, and will come to Him who will not excuse him.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 1842]