سَمِعْتُ أَبَا الْحَسَنِ ( عليه السلام ) يَقُولُ إِنَّ رَجُلًا فِي بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ عَبَدَ اللَّهَ أَرْبَعِينَ سَنَةً ثُمَّ قَرَّبَ قُرْبَاناً فَلَمْ يُقْبَلْ مِنْهُ فَقَالَ لِنَفْسِهِ مَا أُتِيتُ إِلَّا مِنْكِ وَ مَا الذَّنْبُ إِلَّا لَكِ قَالَ فَأَوْحَى اللَّهُ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى إِلَيْهِ ذَمُّكَ لِنَفْسِكَ أَفْضَلُ مِنْ عِبَادَتِكَ أَرْبَعِينَ سَنَةً .
Translation
From him, from Ibn Fazzal, from Al Hassan Bin Al Jaham who said, ‘I heard Abu Al-Hassan<sup>asws</sup> saying: ‘A man from the Children of Israel worshipped Allah<sup>azwj</sup> for forty years. Then he offered an offering, but it was not Accepted from him. So he said to himself, ‘It has not come to you except from yourself, and there is no sin except for you’. He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘So Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Blessed and High Revealed unto him: “Your condemning yourself is superior than your worship for forty years’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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