The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Whoever begs without being in real need is as though he were eating burning coals."
قال رسول الله ﷺ: من سأل من غير فقر فكأنما يأكل الجمر.
Ahmad (17508, 17509), Tabarani in Mujam al-Kabir (3506, 3508), Ibn Khuzayma in his Sahih (2446), and Bayhaqi in Shuab al-Iman (3241) all narrated it, all of them through the hadith of Abu Ishaq Sabi, who said, "Habashi bin Junada Saluli narrated to us," and he mentioned it. This is how it appears in Ibn Khuzayma, and its chain is sahih.It has also been narrated from Habashi bin Junada Saluli, who said, "I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say, during the Farewell Pilgrimage, while he was standing at Arafah, a bedouin came to him and took hold of the edge of his cloak and asked him for it, so he gave it to him and the man left. At that point begging was forbidden." The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Begging is not permissible for a wealthy person, nor for one who is sound and able-bodied, except for someone in dire poverty or someone burdened with a crushing debt. Whoever asks people in order to increase his wealth will have it come as lacerations on his face on the Day of Resurrection, and as burning coals that he eats from Hell. So let him choose to ask little or ask much."Tirmidhi (653) narrated it from Ali bin Saeed Kindi, who said, "Abdul-Rahim bin Sulayman narrated to us, from Mujalid, from Amir Shaybi, from Habashi bin Junada Saluli," and he mentioned it. He also narrated it by another route, from Yahya bin Adam, from Abdul-Rahim bin Sulayman, with his chain, similarly. He said, "This is a gharib hadith from this route."I say, it contains Mujalid, who is Ibn Saeed bin Umayr Hamdani, and he is daif. Nasai, Ibn Main, Daraqutni, Ibn Saad, and others declared him daif, though Bukhari said of him, "He is truthful."