Contentment as inexhaustible wealth

Nahj al-Balāgha|Volume 1|Book 3|Chapter 475

Nahj al-Balāgha

Book 3, Chapter 475

Contentment as inexhaustible wealth
2 Aḥadīth
Ḥadīth 606

٤٧٥. وَقَالَ (عليه ‏السلام): الْقَنَاعَةُ مَالٌ لَا يَنْفَدُ.

475. Amīr al-mu’minīn, peace be upon him, said: Contentment is a wealth that does not exhaust.

Ḥadīth 607

قال السيد الرضي: وقد رَوى بعضُهم هذا الكلام عن النبی (صلى الله علیه وآله).

as-Sayyid ar-Raḍī says: Some people have related that this is the saying of the Messenger of Allāh, peace be upon him and his descendants.