رَأَيْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) يَكِيلُ تَمْراً بِيَدِهِ فَقُلْتُ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ لَوْ أَمَرْتَ بَعْضَ وُلْدِكَ أَوْ بَعْضَ مَوَالِيكَ فَيَكْفِيَكَ فَقَالَ يَا دَاوُدُ إِنَّهُ لَا يُصْلِحُ الْمَرْءَ الْمُسْلِمَ إِلَّا ثَلَاثَةٌ التَّفَقُّهُ فِي الدِّينِ وَ الصَّبْرُ عَلَى النَّائِبَةِ وَ حُسْنُ التَّقْدِيرِ فِي الْمَعِيشَةِ .
Translation
Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ibn Fazzal, from Dawood Bin Sirham who said, ‘I saw Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> weighing dates with his<sup>asws</sup> hand. So I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you<sup>asws</sup>! If you<sup>asws</sup> could have ordered one of your<sup>asws</sup> sons, or one of your slaves, so they would have sufficed for you<sup>asws</sup>’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘O Dawood! It is not correct for the Muslim person except three – the pondering in the Religion, and the patience upon the calamities, and improving the management regarding the livelihood’.
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