Al-Kafi 6157

Translation

Sahl Bin Ziyad, from the one who narrated it, from Jameel Bin Darraj who said, ‘I heard Abu Abdullah^asws saying: ‘The best ones of you are your most generous ones, and your worst ones are the stingy ones; and from the sincerity of the faith is the righteousness with the brethren, and the striving regarding their needs; and the do-gooder with the brethren is Beloved to the Beneficent, and in that is the aversion for the Satan^la and a removal from the Fires, and entering into the Paradise. O Jameel! Inform this to the distinguished ones of your companions’. I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you^asws! Who are the distinguished ones of my companions?’ He^asws said: ‘They are the do-gooders with the brethren during the hardships as well as the ease’. Then he^asws said: ‘O Jameel! As for the owner of the plenty, that would be easy upon him, and Allah^azwj Mighty and Majestic has Praised the owner of the little with regards to that, so He^azwj Said in His^azwj Book <span class="ibTxt"><a href="/#/books/quran:59#h9"><a href="/books/quran:59#h9">[59:9]</a></a> and prefer (them) before themselves though poverty may afflict them, and whoever is preserved from the niggardliness of his soul, these it is that are the successful ones</span>’.

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