قُلْتُ لَهُ أَوْصِنِي فَقَالَ آمُرُكَ بِتَقْوَى اللَّهِ ثُمَّ سَكَتَ فَشَكَوْتُ إِلَيْهِ قِلَّةَ ذَاتِ يَدِي وَ قُلْتُ وَ اللَّهِ لَقَدْ عَرِيتُ حَتَّى بَلَغَ مِنْ عُرْيَتِي أَنَّ أَبَا فُلَانٍ نَزَعَ ثَوْبَيْنِ كَانَا عَلَيْهِ وَ كَسَانِيهِمَا فَقَالَ صُمْ وَ تَصَدَّقْ قُلْتُ أَتَصَدَّقُ مِمَّا وَصَلَنِي بِهِ إِخْوَانِي وَ إِنْ كَانَ قَلِيلًا قَالَ تَصَدَّقْ بِمَا رَزَقَكَ اللَّهُ وَ لَوْ آثَرْتَ عَلَى نَفْسِكَ .
Translation
He said, ‘And Bakr Bin Salih narrated to us, from Bundar Bin Muhammad Al Tabary, from Ali Bin Suweyd Al Sa’aiy, (It has been narrated) from Abu Al-Hassan<sup>asws</sup>, said, ‘I said to him<sup>asws</sup>, ‘Advise me’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘I<sup>asws</sup> order you with the fear of Allah<sup>azwj</sup>’. Then he<sup>asws</sup> was silent, so I complained to him<sup>asws</sup> of the scarcity of what was in my hands, and I said, ‘By Allah<sup>azwj</sup>! I have become naked, and my nakedness reached to such an extent that Abu so and so removed two clothes which were upon him, and clothed me with these two’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Fast and give charity’. I said, ‘Can I give in charity from what has arrived to me from my brethren, and even if it was little?’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Give charity from what Allah<sup>azwj</sup> has Graced you with, even though you have to prefer (others) over yourself’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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