CHARITY AND BEGGING H 532 "During a sermon given by the Prophet, praise and peace be upon him, from the pulpit he spoke about charity and refraining from begging. He said: 'The upper hand is better than the lower; the upper is the hand that spends and the lower is the one that begs.'" R 532 Bukhari and Muslim with a chain up to ibn Omar who related this hadith.
530- وعنه : أنَّ رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم قَالَ وَهُوَ عَلَى المِنْبَرِ ، وَذَكَرَ الصَّدَقَةَ وَالتَّعَفُّفَ عَنِ الْمَسْأَلَةِ : "اليَدُ العُلْيَا خَيْرٌ مِنَ اليَدِ السُّفْلَى ، وَاليَدُ العُلْيَا هِيَ المُنْفِقَةُ ، وَالسُّفْلَى هِيَ السَّائِلَةُ" متفقٌ عَلَيْهِ .