Same indexed hadith alkafi-6050; it ends on this printed page after beginning on pages 18-19.
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قُلْتُ لَهُ أَيُّ الصَّدَقَةِ أَفْضَلُ- قَالَ جُهْدُ الْمُقِلِ أَ مَا سَمِعْتَ قَوْلَ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ- وَ يُؤْثِرُونَ عَلى أَنْفُسِهِمْ وَ لَوْ كانَ بِهِمْ خَصاصَةٌ تَرَى هَاهُنَا فَضْلًا.
English translationMuhammad Sarwar
3. A number of our people have narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn abu Nasr from Muhammad ibn Sama‘ah from abu Basir from one of the two Imam abu Ja’far or abu ‘Abd Allah, recipients of divine supreme covenant who has said the following: “I asked him (the Imam), ‘What kind of charity is more excellent?’ He said, ‘It is the kind of charity that one provides after doing his utmost. Have you heard the words of Allah, the Most Majestic, “They give preference to others over themselves even though they are in dire need?” (59:9) It is this kind of charity giving in which you can see excellence.’”
Translation: Muhammad Sarwar·Thaqalayn link·The Arabic above is the original.
Commentary1 available source
لا يوجد شرح متاح لهذا الحديث.
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1- ضعيف على المشهورAllamah Baqir al-MajlisiMirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (6/146)
الهوامش2
[1]في النهاية: و في الحديث« أفضل الصدقة جهد المقل» أي قدر ما يحتمله حال القليل المال.ص 19
[2]الحشر: 9.ص 19