Softening The Heart: Kitāb az-Zuhd wa’r-Raqāʾiq

by Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak

225. Anas ibn Mālik narrated that the Messenger of Allah said, ‘The son of Ādam is destroyed—or the son of Ādam becomes senile—and two things still remain in him: avarice and high expectations.’ (Aḥmad 12142 and Nasāʾī in as-Sunan al-Kubrā 11765).