سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) يَقُولُ إِنَّ مَلَكاً مُوَكَّلًا بِالرُّكْنِ الْيَمَانِيِّ مُنْذُ خَلَقَ اللَّهُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَ الْأَرَضِينَ لَيْسَ لَهُ هِجِّيرٌ إِلَّا التَّأْمِينَ عَلَى دُعَائِكُمْ فَلْيَنْظُرْ عَبْدٌ بِمَا يَدْعُو فَقُلْتُ لَهُ مَا الْهِجِّيرُ فَقَالَ كَلَامٌ مِنْ كَلَامِ الْعَرَبِ أَيْ لَيْسَ لَهُ عَمَلٌ وَ فِي رِوَايَةٍ أُخْرَى لَيْسَ لَهُ عَمَلٌ غَيْرُ ذَلِكَ .
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Al A’ala Bin Al Muqa’ad who said, ‘I heard Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> saying: ‘An Angel has been Allocated with the Yamani corner since Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Created the skies and the firmaments, there not being anything constantly for him to do except for saying ‘Ameen’ upon your supplication. So let a servant look into what he is supplicating for’. So, I said to him<sup>asws</sup>, ‘What is <span class="iTxt">Al-Hijjir</span>?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘It is an expression from the expression of the Arabs meaning that there is no (other) work for him to do’. And in another report, ‘(He<sup>asws</sup> said): ‘There is no work for him apart from that’.
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