Hadith 126

I said to him-asws, ‘I shall buy you-asws a trouser and delay taking its price up to your-asws pay day’. So, I handed a trouser to him-asws upon to his-asws pay day. When he-asws took his pay, he-asws handed over the price of the trouser to me’’. [75]
And it is reported by Haroun Bin Sa’ad –
‘Abdullah son of Ja’far-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws said to Ali-asws, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! If you-asws could order (a financial) assistance or expense money for me. By Allah-azwj! There is no expense money for me except if I were to sell my riding animal’. He-asws said: ‘No, by Allah-azwj! I-asws do not find anything to be for you unless you are instruction your uncle-asws to steal and give it to you’’. [76]
And it is reported by Bakr Bin Isa who said, ‘Ali-asws had said: ‘O people of Al-Kufa! What I-asws go out from you with other than my-asws riding animal and my-asws belongings and my-asws so and so slave, then I-asws am an embezzler’. And his-asws expense monies used to come from his-asws yield at Al-Medina, and he-asws used to feed the people bread and met, and he-asws was eating the porridge with the vinegar’’. [77]
And it is reported by Abu Is’haq Al Hamdany –
‘Two women came to Ali-asws, one of them being from the Arabs and the other one being from the slaves. They asked him-asws, so he-asws and he-asws handed a Dirham to them and a meal with the sameness. One of them said, ‘I am a woman from the Arabs and this one is from the non-Arabs’. He-asws said: ‘By Allah-azwj! I-asws cannot find being for the sons of Ismail in this war booty, any merit over the sons of Is’haq-as! ’’[78]
And it is reported by Muawiya Bin Ammar, ‘From Ja’far-asws Bin Muhammad-asws having said: ‘No two matters were presented to Ali-asws in the Self (for the Sake) of Allah-azwj the Exalted, except he-asws took with the more difficult of the two, and you know well, O people of Al-Kufa, that he-asws was consuming when with you, from his-asws wealth at Al-Medina. And when he-asws had taken porridge, he-asws make it to be in a tin and seal upon it, fearing that something else might be added upon it; and who can be more ascetic in the world than Ali-asws? ’’[79]
And it is reported by Al Nazr Bin Suweyd, from Uqbah Bin Alqamah who said, ‘I entered to see Ali-asws, and in front of him-asws there was sour milk whose smell harmed me, and a dry piece of bread. I said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! You-asws are eating the like of this (despite being the ruler)? ’ He-asws said to me: ‘O Abu Al-Janoub! Rasool-Allah-saww had eaten drier than this, and worn coarser than this’, and he-asws gestured towards his-asws clothes. So, if I-asws do not take with it, I-asws fear I-asws might not join up with him-saww’’. [80]
And it is reported by Imran Bin Gafalah who said, ‘I entered to see Ali-asws at Al-Kufa, and in front of him-asws there was a cup of milk, I found its smell due to the severity of its having soured, and in his-asws hand was a piece of bread, the crumbs of the barley were upon his-asws face, and he-asws was breaking it, and being assisted at time with his-asws knees, and his-asws maid Fizzasa was standing by his-asws head