سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) يَقُولُ حَجَّةٌ أَفْضَلُ مِنْ عِتْقِ سَبْعِينَ رَقَبَةً فَقُلْتُ مَا يَعْدِلُ الْحَجَّ شَيْءٌ قَالَ مَا يَعْدِلُهُ شَيْءٌ وَ لَدِرْهَمٌ وَاحِدٌ فِي الْحَجِّ أَفْضَلُ مِنْ أَلْفَيْ أَلْفِ دِرْهَمٍ فِيمَا سِوَاهُ مِنْ سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ ثُمَّ قَالَ لَهُ خَرَجْتُ عَلَى نَيِّفٍ وَ سَبْعِينَ بَعِيراً وَ بِضْعَ عَشْرَةَ دَابَّةً وَ لَقَدِ اشْتَرَيْتُ سُوداً أُكَثِّرُ بِهَا الْعَدَدَ وَ لَقَدْ آذَانِي أَكْلُ الْخَلِّ وَ الزَّيْتِ حَتَّى إِنَّ حَمِيدَةَ أَمَرَتْ بِدَجَاجَةٍ فَشُوِيَتْ فَرَجَعَتْ إِلَيَّ نَفْسِي .
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from one of his companions, from Umar Bin Yazeed who said, ‘I heard Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> saying: ‘A Hajj is superios than freeing seventy necks’. So I said, ‘Does anything equate to the Hajj?’ He<sup>asws</sup> said, ‘Nothing equates to the Hajj, and for one Dirham regarding the Hajj is superior than the two thousand, thousand (two million) Dirhams in what is besides it, from the Ways of Allah<sup>azwj</sup>’. Then he<sup>asws</sup> said to him: ‘I<sup>asws</sup> went (to Hajj) upon more, and there were seventy camles and some ten animals, and I<sup>asws</sup> had bought slaves to increase the number with it, and the eating of the vinegar and the oil had harmed me<sup>asws</sup> until Hameeda instructed with the chicken to be grilled, so I<sup>asws</sup> returned to my<sup>asws</sup> (former) self’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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