قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) لِمُفَضَّلِ بْنِ عُمَرَ يَا مُفَضَّلُ إِذَا أَرَدْتَ أَنْ تَعْلَمَ أَ شَقِيٌّ الرَّجُلُ أَمْ سَعِيدٌ فَانْظُرْ سَيْبَهُ وَ مَعْرُوفَهُ إِلَى مَنْ يَصْنَعُهُ فَإِنْ كَانَ يَصْنَعُهُ إِلَى مَنْ هُوَ أَهْلُهُ فَاعْلَمْ أَنَّهُ إِلَى خَيْرٍ وَ إِنْ كَانَ يَصْنَعُهُ إِلَى غَيْرِ أَهْلِهِ فَاعْلَمْ أَنَّهُ لَيْسَ لَهُ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ خَيْرٌ .
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Sayf Bin Ameyra who said, ‘Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> said to Mufazal Bin Umar: ‘O Mufazzal! Whenever you want to know whether the man is a wretch or a fortunate one, so look at his abandoning and his kindness, to whom he is doing it to. So if he was offering it to the one who was deserving it, so know that he is upon goodness; but if he was extending it to other than its deserving one, so know that there is no goodness for him in the Presence of Allah<sup>azwj</sup>’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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