What is the response to the doubt regarding "Beware of having many children"?

The questioner:
We request clarification of the response to this doubt promoted by those who advocate for limiting family size, namely their claim that there is a hadith of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) in which he says, "Beware of having many children, for it is better that you be poor and ask people for help than that you be rich and give charity." How authentic is this hadith? And what is the response to these people?

The Shaykh:
This speaker has mixed truth with falsehood. "Beware of having many children" is false. What is the reality? The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did not say, "Beware of having many children." We ask Allah for well-being.

The questioner:
Yes.

The Shaykh:
The chapter on what is wrong: this is a fabricated matter with no specific basis. Rather, Sa'd said this when he said to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), "I am ill." Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas (may Allah be pleased with him), one of the ten promised Paradise, said in the Farewell Pilgrimage hadith, "I have wealth, or I am ill (may Allah be pleased with him) at that time, and I have only one chance. Should I give away a third? It is better for you to leave your daughter in a state of wealth than to leave her in a state of poverty among people." So the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said to him, meaning he wants wealth for the paper (record), and he should not give away more than a third, nor should he give away more than a third while ill. He explained to him that if he leaves behind heirs other than those he leaves in a state of dependency, meaning poor people who depend on people, then this is a bequest to be kind to one's offspring and to leave them wealth that benefits them after his death. It does not contain a recommendation to leave behind many children. No. So if it is wrong and has no basis from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), the Prophet's bequest to men is to leave something for their children and offspring that benefits them from wealth, and not to give away charity in their illnesses, not to give away charity in their illness, and not to bequeath their wealth in their illness, and they have no right to more than a third of it, so that the wealth remains for the heirs and the offspring to benefit from it and profit from it, or so that the offspring do not remain dependent poor people who need to ask people for help. This is the word of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him).