قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) لِمُصَادِفٍ مَوْلَاهُ اتَّخِذْ عُقْدَةً أَوْ ضَيْعَةً فَإِنَّ الرَّجُلَ إِذَا نَزَلَتْ بِهِ النَّازِلَةُ أَوِ الْمُصِيبَةُ فَذَكَرَ أَنَّ وَرَاءَ ظَهْرِهِ مَا يُقِيمُ عِيَالَهُ كَانَ أَسْخَى لِنَفْسِهِ .
Translation
Al Hassan Bin Muhammad, from Muhammad Bin Ahmad Al nahdy, from Yaqoub Bin Yazeed, from Muhammad Bin Murazim, from his father who said, ‘Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> said to Musadif, a slave of his<sup>asws</sup>: ‘Take real estate or a place (house etc.), for the man, when there descends unto him an affliction or the difficulty, so he remembers that behind his back is what his family can stand upon, he would be more generous with himself’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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