Hazrat Aswad bin Hilal narrates that a person came to Hazrat Abdullah bin Masood (may Allah be pleased with him) and said: I fear that I may not be able to fulfill the meaning of this verse of the Holy Qur'an { وَمَنْ یُوقَ شُحَّ نَفْسِہِ } because I do not have the ability to spend things, rather I have the ability to withhold them. Hazrat Abdullah replied that this is miserliness, and miserliness is the worst thing.