Al-Kafi 5665

Translation

A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ibn Abu Najran, from Sabbah Al-Haza’a, from Ibn Al-Tayyar who said, ‘I said to Abu Abdullah^asws, ‘There was something in my hand which has separated from me, and I am constricted with intense constriction’. So he^asws said to me: ‘Have you got a shop in the market?’ I said, ‘Yes, and I have neglected it’. So he^asws said: ‘When you return to Al-Kufa, so sit in your shop, and sweep it (clean). So when you intend to go out to your market, so pray two Rak’at of <span class="iTxt">Salāt</span> or four Rak’at of <span class="iTxt">Salāt</span>, then say at the end of your <span class="iTxt">Salāt</span>, ‘I have diverted, without any might from myself nor any strength, but by Your^azwj Mighty and Your^azwj Strength, having disavowed to You^azwj from the might and the strength except with You^azwj, for You^azwj are my mighty and You^azwj is my strength. O Allah^azwj! So grace me from Your^azwj Grace, the extensive livelihood, abundant, goodly, and I am free from anxiety in Your^azwj well-being for it no one controls it apart from You^azwj’. He (the narrator) said, ‘So I did that, and I was going out to my shop until I feared that the collector would seize me for rent and there was nothing with me. Then an importer came over with goods and he said to me, ‘Can you hire out to me half of your room?’ So I rented it out half of my room to him by the rent of the room, the whole of it’. He (the narrator) said, ‘And he displayed his goods and asked something (a price) for it but could not sell it. So I said to him, ‘If you think there is goodness for you to me, sell me a bundle of these goods of yours. I shall sell it (at a higher price) and keep the extra and hand over to you its price’. He said, ‘How is that going to work out for me?’ I said, ‘And for you is Allah^azwj upon me, with that’. He said, ‘So take a bundle from it’. So I took it, and priced it, and the cold became extreme. So I sold the goods on the same day and handed over the price to him and I kept the extra. And I did not cease to take bundle after bundle, selling it and taking its extra and returning to him the capital to the extent that I rode the animals, and I bought the slaves, and I built the houses’.

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