Then he said: "O Qabīṣah, asking is not permissible except for one of three: a man who has taken on a liability, so asking becomes permissible for him, and he asks until he obtains it, then he refrains.

And a man who has been struck by a calamity that has swept away his wealth, so asking becomes permissible for him, and he asks until he obtains what is sufficient for living — or what sustains a living.

And a man who has been struck by poverty until three wise men from his people say: 'So-and-so has been struck by poverty,' so asking becomes permissible for him, and he asks until he obtains what is sufficient for living — or what sustains a living — then he refrains. And anything other than these in asking, O Qabīṣah, is unlawful gain, and its possessor consumes it as unlawful gain." (1)

1641 — ʿAbd Allāh ibn Maslamah narrated to us, ʿĪsā ibn Yūnus informed us, from al-Akhḍar ibn ʿAjlān, from Abū Bakr al-Ḥanafī,
from Anas ibn Mālik: that a man from the Anṣār came to the Prophet, peace be upon him, asking him, and he said: "Is there anything in your house?" He said: Yes, a blanket: we wear part of it and spread out

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(1) Its chain is sound. Musaddad: he is ibn Musarhad al-Asadī.
Muslim (1044), al-Nasāʾī in al-Kubrā (2371), (2372), and (2383) also narrated it.
It is in Musnad Aḥmad (15916), and Ṣaḥīḥ Ibn Ḥibbān (3291).
His saying: "has taken on a liability" (taḥammala ḥamālah). It was said in al-Majmaʿ: with fatḥah, it is what a man takes upon himself on behalf of another, such as blood money or a debt payment, as if a war occurs between two parties and blood is shed in it, then a man enters between them and takes upon himself the blood money of the slain to reconcile the parties. And taḥammul means: that he bears it on their behalf upon himself.
Al-jāʾiḥah: the affliction, such as drowning, fire, and the ruin of crops. Al-sadād: what fills the need of poverty and repels it and suffices for one's need. Everything with which you fill a gap is a sidād, with kasrah, and for this reason the stopper of a bottle is called sidād, with kasrah — it is its plug. From it also is sidād al-thaghr, with kasrah, when it is filled with horses and men. As for al-sadād, with fatḥah, its meaning is correctness in speech and that a man be right-minded.
Al-suḥt: that which is unlawful, whose earning is not permissible, because it erases (yasḥat) the blessing, i.e., removes it.