قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) أَ تُحِبُّ إِخْوَانَكَ يَا حُسَيْنُ قُلْتُ نَعَمْ قَالَ تَنْفَعُ فُقَرَاءَهُمْ قُلْتُ نَعَمْ قَالَ أَمَا إِنَّهُ يَحِقُّ عَلَيْكَ أَنْ تُحِبَّ مَنْ يُحِبُّ اللَّهُ أَمَا وَ اللَّهِ لَا تَنْفَعُ مِنْهُمْ أَحَداً حَتَّى تُحِبَّهُ أَ تَدْعُوهُمْ إِلَى مَنْزِلِكَ قُلْتُ نَعَمْ مَا آكُلُ إِلَّا وَ مَعِيَ مِنْهُمُ الرَّجُلَانِ وَ الثَّلَاثَةُ وَ الْأَقَلُّ وَ الْأَكْثَرُ فَقَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) أَمَا إِنَّ فَضْلَهُمْ عَلَيْكَ أَعْظَمُ مِنْ فَضْلِكَ عَلَيْهِمْ فَقُلْتُ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ أُطْعِمُهُمْ طَعَامِي وَ أُوطِئُهُمْ رَحْلِي وَ يَكُونُ فَضْلُهُمْ عَلَيَّ أَعْظَمَ قَالَ نَعَمْ إِنَّهُمْ إِذَا دَخَلُوا مَنْزِلَكَ دَخَلُوا بِمَغْفِرَتِكَ وَ مَغْفِرَةِ عِيَالِكَ وَ إِذَا خَرَجُوا مِنْ مَنْزِلِكَ خَرَجُوا بِذُنُوبِكَ وَ ذُنُوبِ عِيَالِكَ .
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A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Khalid, from Usman Bin Isa, from Husayn Bin Nuaym Al Sahhaf who said, ‘Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Do you love your brethren, O Husayn?’ I said, ‘Yes’. He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Do you benefit their poor ones?’ I said, ‘Yes’. He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘But, it is an entitlement upon you that you love the one whom Allah<sup>azwj</sup> loves. But, by Allah<sup>azwj</sup>, you will not benefit anyone from them until you love him. Are you inviting them to your house?’ I said, ‘Yes. I do not eat unless there are two of them with me, and three, and less, and more’. So Abu Abdullah<sup style="font-weight: normal">asws</sup> said: ‘But their merit upon you is greater than your merit upon them’. So I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you<sup style="font-weight: normal">asws</sup>! I feed them my food, and I give them my ride, and their merit upon me happens to be greater?’ He<sup style="font-weight: normal">asws</sup> said: ‘Yes. When they come over to your house, they enter with the Forgiveness for you, and Forgiveness for your dependants, and when they go our from your house, they go out with your sins (having been Forgiven) and the sins of your dependants’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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