Sa'd ibn Abdullah, from Ahmad ibn Muhammad, from al-Husayn ibn Sa'id, from Safwan ibn Yahya, from Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Hajjaj, who said: I (narrator) asked Abu al-Hasan al-Awwal عليه السلام (the First), peace be upon him, about ‘zakat, may some of those who are given, from among those who do not ask, be preferred over others?’ Imam عليه السلام said: "Yes, the one who does not ask is preferred over the one who asks."