Al-Kafi 14765

Translation

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Mahboub, from Muhammad Bin Yahya Al Khash’amy who said, ‘There was a group in the presence of Abu Abdullah^asws, when a man from the adherents of Abu Ja’far^asws entered. So he greeted him^asws, then was seated and cried. Then he said to him^asws, ‘May I be sacrificed for you^asws! I gave a promise to Allah^azwj that if He^azwj was to Heal me from something which I was afraid of upon myself, I would give in charity with the entirety of what I own; and Allah^azwj Mighty and Majestic did cure me from it, and I have transferred my family from my house to a canopy  from the ruins of the Helpers, and have carried every thing what I owned, so I would sell my house, and the entirety of what I own, so I would give in charity with it’. So Abu Abdullah^asws said: ‘Go and evaluate your house, and the entirety of your belongings, and whatever you own with a just price, and recognise that. Then take to a white parchment and write down in it all of whatever you have evaluated. Then look around to a reliable one of the people with regards to yourself, so hand over the parchment to him, and bequeath to him and instruct him that if there were to occur an event with you, an event of the death, that he should sell your house and the entirety of whatever you own, so he should give it in charity with it on your behalf. Then return to your house, and evaluate upon what was in it. So consume, you and your family, similar what you used to consume. Then consider everything you give in charity with, with regards to what faces you from the charity, or helping the relatives, or in the aspects of righteousness, so write that down, all of it, and count it. So whenever it is the start of the year, so go to the man to whom you had bequeathed to, and instruct him that he should bring the parchment out to you. Then write in it the total of whatever you have given in charity, and the expenses upon your relatives, or righteous deeds during that year. Then keep on doing that during every year until you have fulfilled for Allah^azwj with the entirety of what you had vowed in it, and there would remain for you, your house, and your wealth, Allah^azwj Willing’. He (the narrator) said, ‘So the man said, ‘You^asws have relieved me, O son^asws of Rasool-Allah^saww, may Allah^azwj Make me to be sacrificed for you^asws’.

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