Al-Kafi 2078

Translation

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Abu Ali Sahib Al Kilaly, from Aban Bin Taghlub who said, ‘I was performing <span class="iTxt">Tawaaf</span> along with Abu Abdullah^asws, and a man from our companions presented himself to me, and he was asking me to go with him regarding a need. So he gestured to me and I disliked to leave Abu Abdullah^asws and go to him. So while I was performing <span class="iTxt">Tawaaf</span> he gestured to me again and Abu Abdullah^asws saw him, so he^asws said: ‘O Aban! Is it you that this one wants?’ I said, ‘Yes’. He^asws said: ‘So who is he?’ I said, ‘A man from our companions’. He^asws said: ‘He is upon the like of what you are upon (Al-<span class="iTxt">Wilayah</span>)?’ I said, ‘Yes’. He^asws said: ‘So go to him’. I said, ‘So I should cut the <span class="iTxt">Tawaaf</span>?’ He^asws said: ‘Yes’. I said, ‘And even if it was the Obligatory <span class="iTxt">Tawaaf</span>?’ He^asws said: ‘Yes’. He (the narrator) said, ‘So I went with him, then came over to him^asws afterwards and I asked him^asws, so I said, ‘Inform me about the right of a <span class="iTxt">Momin</span> upon a <span class="iTxt">Momin</span>’. So he^asws said: ‘O Aban! Leave it. Do not re-iterate it’. I said, ‘Yes, may I be sacrificed for you^asws’. But I did not cease to re-iterate upon him^asws, so he^asws said: ‘O Aban! Would you apportion to him half of your wealth?’ Then he^asws looked at me, and he^asws saw what had entered into me, so he^asws said: ‘O Aban! Do you not know that Allah^azwj Mighty and Majestic has Mentioned the one preferring others over themselves?’ I said, ‘Yes, may I be sacrificed for you^asws’. So he^asws said: ‘But, when you apportion to him half, so you have not preferred him afterwards, but rather, you and him would be equal. But rather, preferring him is when you give from more from the other half’.

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