Al-Kafi 6135

Translation

Ali Bin Muhammad Bin Abdullah, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Khalid, from the one who mentioned it, from Al Waleed Bin Abu Al A’ala, from Mo’tab who said, ‘Muhammad Bin Bishr Al-Washa’a went over to Abu Abdullah^asws asking him^asws if he^asws could speak to Shihaab that he lightens from him (the debt) until the season (of Hajj) expires, and there used to be for him, upon him, a thousand Dinars (as debt owing). So he^asws sent a message to him, so he came over to him^asws, and he^asws said to him: ‘You know the state of Muhammad, and his cutting off (from the people) to be with us^asws, and he has mentioned that for you, upon him, are a thousand Dinars (owing), which have neither gone into a belly nor a private part (marriage). But it has gone upon the man as a debt, and is placed in its (appropriate) place, and I^asws would love it if you could make him to be free from it’. Then he^asws said: ‘Perhaps you are from the ones who think that He^azwj would Capture from his Rewards, so you would be Given it’. So he said, ‘It is like that in our hands (Ahadeeth reported)’. So Abu Abdullah^asws said: ‘Allah^azwj is more Benevolent and more Just that if His^azwj servant comes closer to Him^saww, so he stands during the cold night (in Prayer), or Fasts during the hot day, or circumambulates with this House (Kabah), then He^azwj would Confiscate that, so He^azwj would Give it (to others), but Allah^azwj has a lot of extras which would suffice the Believer’. So he said, ‘So he is in freedom (from my debt)’.

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