Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah’s Apostle said, “By Him in Whose Hand my life is, it is better for anyone of you to take a ropeĀ and cut the wood (from the forest) and carry it over his back and sell it (as a means of earning hisĀ living) rather than to ask a person for something and that person may give him or not.”
Sahih Bukhari, Volume 2, Book24, Number 549