Al-Kafi 8521

Translation

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Salih Bin Al Sandy, from Ja’far Bin Basheer, from Khalid Bin Umarat, from Sadeyr Al Sayrafi who said, ‘I said to Abu Ja’far^asws, ‘A Hadeeth has reached me from Al-Hassan Al-Basry, so if it was true, so we are for Allah^azwj to Him^azwj we are returning’. He^asws said: ‘And what is it?’ I said, ‘It has reached me that Al-Hassan Al-Basry was saying, ‘(Even) if his brain were to boil from the heat of the sun, he would (still) not shade himself by a wall of a money-changer, and (even) if his liver were to burst out of thirst, he would not quench himself with water from the house of a money-changer, and it is my work and my business, and by it my flesh has been built and my blood, and from it I have performed my Hajj and my Umrah’. So he^asws sat up, then said: ‘Al-Hassan has lied! Take equally (in fairness) and give equally (in fairness), so when the Prayer presents itself, leave what is in your hands and rise to the Prayer. Do you not know that the companions of the cave (As’haab Al-Kahf) were money-changers?’

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