قُلْتُ لِأَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلام ) حَدِّثْنِي بِمَا أَنْتَفِعُ بِهِ فَقَالَ يَا أَبَا عُبَيْدَةَ أَكْثِرْ ذِكْرَ الْمَوْتِ فَإِنَّهُ لَمْ يُكْثِرْ إِنْسَانٌ ذِكْرَ الْمَوْتِ إِلَّا زَهِدَ فِي الدُّنْيَا .
Translation
Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Isa from Ali Bin Al Hakam, from Abu Ayoub Al Khazzaz, from Abu Ubeyda Al Haza’a who said, ‘I said to Abu Ja’far<sup style="font-weight: normal">asws</sup>, ‘(Please) Narrate to me with what I can benefit from’. So he<sup style="font-weight: normal">asws</sup> said: ‘O Abu Ubeyda! Frequently remember the death, for a human being would not frequent in remembering the death except that he would be an ascetic in the world’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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