الْیَدُ الْعُلْیَا خَیْرٌ مِّنَ الْیَدِ السُّفْلَی
The upper hand is superior to the lower hand
The 24th of the 40 hadiths gathered by Shah Waliullah ad-Dehlawi in Shah Waliullah's Forty Hadith, given below in the original Arabic with an English translation and its reference.
الْیَدُ الْعُلْیَا خَیْرٌ مِّنَ الْیَدِ السُّفْلَی
The upper hand is superior to the lower hand
Text from the open hadith-api dataset. Hadith numbering follows that edition and can differ slightly from a printed copy — check the Arabic against a trusted mushaf of hadith before relying on a reference.