From Ibn 'Umar is that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, stated while he was on the minbar, "The upper hand is better than the lower hand. The upper hand is the one which spends and the lower is the beggar's."

Riyadh-as-Saliheen by Imam Al-Nawawi, volume 4, hadith number 531 - Sunni Hadith