Al-Kafi 1949

Translation

A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Khalid, from Yaqoub Bin Yazeed, from Ibrahim Bin Muhammad Al Nowfaly, (It has been narrated) raising it to Ali^asws Bin Al-Husayn^asws having said: ‘Rasoool-Allah^saww passed by a camel shepherd, so he^saww sent to him to quench him^saww, but he said, ‘As for what is in their udders, so it is for their morning, and as for what is in our containers, so it is for their evening’. So Rasool-Allah^saww said: ‘O Allah^azwj! Increase his wealth and his children’. Then he^saww passed by a sheep shepherd. So he^saww sent for him to quench him^saww. So he milked for him^saww whatever was in its udders, and added to whatever was in his container into the container of Rasool-Allah^saww, and sent a sheep over to him^saww and said: ‘This is what is with us, and if you^saww so love it that we increase it for you^saww, we shall increase it for you^saww’. So Rasool-Allah^saww said: ‘O Allah^azwj! Grace him at the subsistence level’. So one of his^saww companions said to him^saww, ‘O Rasool-Allah^saww! You^saww supplicated for the one who repulsed you^saww with a supplication which the generality of us would love, and you^saww supplicated to the one who relieved you^saww of your^saww need with a supplication which we all would dislike’. So Rasool-Allah^saww said: ‘What is little and just enough is better than what is more and diverting. O Allah^azwj! Grace Muhammad^saww and the Progeny^asws of Muhammad^saww, the subsistence’.

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