The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "The needy person is not the one whom a date or two, or a bite or two, will turn away. The needy person is the one who asks nothing from people, and whose condition goes unnoticed so that he might be given something." He added, "Rather, the needy person is the one who restrains himself from asking."Musaddad added in his version, "He is the one who has nothing to make him self-sufficient, who does not ask, and whose need is not known so that charity might be given to him. That is the one who is deprived." Musaddad did not mention "the one who restrains himself from asking."
حدثنا مسدد وعبيد الله بن عمر وأبو كامل المعنى قالوا حدثنا عبد الواحد بن زياد حدثنا معمر عن الزهري عن أبي سلمة عن أبي هريرة قال قال رسول الله ﷺ مثله قال ولكن المسكين المتعفف زاد مسدد في حديثه ليس له ما يستغني به الذي لا يسأل ولا يعلم بحاجته فيتصدق عليه فذاك المحروم ولم يذكر مسدد المتعفف الذي لا يسأل
[Its chain of transmission is daif] Nasai narrated it in the Book of Zakat, chapter on the tafsir of "the destitute," hadith no. 2574, from the hadith of Mamar, with the same wording. This hadith has many corroborating narrations.His statement, "That is the one deprived," is from the words of Zuhri, as the author, may Allah have mercy on him, stated.Zuhri used the term "ana" (indicating a possible break in transmission), but the hadith of Bukhari, no. 1476, and Muslim, hadith no. 1039, render it unnecessary.