كَتَبَ بَعْضُ أَصْحَابِنَا يَسْأَلُونَ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) عَنْ أَشْيَاءَ وَ أَمَرُونِي أَنْ أَسْأَلَهُ عَنْ حَقِّ الْمُسْلِمِ عَلَى أَخِيهِ فَسَأَلْتُهُ فَلَمْ يُجِبْنِي فَلَمَّا جِئْتُ لِأُوَدِّعَهُ فَقُلْتُ سَأَلْتُكَ فَلَمْ تُجِبْنِي فَقَالَ إِنِّي أَخَافُ أَنْ تَكْفُرُوا إِنَّ مِنْ أَشَدِّ مَا افْتَرَضَ اللَّهُ عَلَى خَلْقِهِ ثَلَاثاً إِنْصَافَ الْمَرْءِ مِنْ نَفْسِهِ حَتَّى لَا يَرْضَى لِأَخِيهِ مِنْ نَفْسِهِ إِلَّا بِمَا يَرْضَى لِنَفْسِهِ مِنْهُ وَ مُوَاسَاةَ الْأَخِ فِي الْمَالِ وَ ذِكْرَ اللَّهِ عَلَى كُلِّ حَالٍ لَيْسَ سُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ وَ الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ وَ لَكِنْ عِنْدَ مَا حَرَّمَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ فَيَدَعُهُ .
Translation
From him, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from Ali Bin Sayf, from his father Sayf, from his father Sayf, from Abdul A’ala Bin Ayn who said, ‘Some of our companions wrote asking Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> about certain things, and instructed me that I ask him<sup>asws</sup> about the right of the Muslim upon his brother. So I asked him<sup>asws</sup>, but he<sup>asws</sup> did not answer me. So when I went over to bid farewell to him<sup>asws</sup>, so I said, ‘I did ask you<sup>asws</sup>, but you<sup>asws</sup> did not answer me’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘I<sup>asws</sup> feared that you would be disbelieving. From the most difficult of what Allah<sup>azwj</sup> has Imposed upon His<sup>azwj</sup> creatures are three – The fairness of the man from himself until he is not pleased for his brother from himself except with what he is pleased for his own self from him, and equalisation of the brother in the wealth, and remembering Allah<sup>azwj</sup> upon every state, not being (the saying of) ‘Glory be to Allah<sup>azwj</sup>, and the Praise is due to Allah<sup>azwj</sup>’, but during what Allah<sup>azwj</sup> has Prohibited upon him, he leaves it’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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