We were informed by the Chief Judge, Nafīs al-Dīn Abū al-Qāsim Hibat Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Jarīr al-Ḥārithī, the Shāfiʿī—this report was read aloud to him while I listened in the year 679 AH—together with Shaykh Shams al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī ʿUmar and Aḥmad ibn Shaybān. They said:
Abū al-Barakāt Dāwūd ibn Aḥmad ibn Mulāʿib al-Baghdādī informed us—his copy was read to him—who said: Imām Abū al-Faḍl Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn Yūsuf al-Armawī informed us, this being read to him while I listened in the year 546 AH. He said: Abū Qāsim ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Busrī informed us in 465 AH; he said: Abū Aḥmad ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī Muslim al-Faradī informed us; he said: Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Aḥmad al-Muṭayrī narrated to us in 333 AH; he said: Abū Aḥmad Bishr ibn Maṭar al-Wāsiṭī, in Sāmarrā, informed us; he said: Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah narrated to us, from al-Zuhrī, from Sālim, from his father, from the Prophet ﷺ, who said:
“Envy is not justified except in two cases: a man to whom Allah has given the Quran and who recites it throughout the night and the day, and a man to whom Allah has given wealth and who spends it, night and day, in its rightful way.”