Al-Kafi 8608

Translation

Al Husayn Bin Muhammad, from Muhammad Bin Ahmad Al Nahdy, from Kaseer Bin Yunus, from Abdul Rahman Bin Sabaya who said, ‘When my father Sayaba died, a man from his brethren came over to me. So he knocked the door upon me, and I went out to him, so he offered his condolences to me and said to me, ‘Did your father leave anything?’ So I said to him, ‘No’. So he handed over a bag to me in which were one thousand Dirhams, and said to me, ‘Look after it well and eat from its excess (profits)’. So I went over to my mother, and I was happy, and I informed her of it. So when it was the evening, a friend of my father came over, so I bought for myself Sabiriyya goods and sat in a shop. So Allah^azwj Majestic and Mighty Graced me a lot of goodness in it, and (the season) for Hajj presented itself, so it occurred in my heart. I went over to my mother and said to her that it has occurred in my heart that I should go out to Makkah. So she said to me, ‘Return the Dirhams of so and so to him’. So she gave it to me and I went with it to him and handed these over to him, so it was as if I had gifted it to him. He said, ‘Perhaps I have given you little, so I shall increase it for you’. I said, ‘No, but performing the Hajj has occurred in my heart, therefore I loved it that your thing should be with you’. Then I went out and fulfilled my rituals. Then I returned to Al-Medina, so I went over to Abu Abdullah^asws along with the people, and he^asws had permitted with a general permission. So I sat among the back rows of the people, and I was young. So the people went on asking him^asws, and he^asws kept answering them. So when the people were less from him^asws, he^asws gestured towards me. So I approached him^asws, and he^asws said to me: ‘Is there a need for you?’ So I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you^asws! I am Abdul Rahman Bin Sabaya’. So he^asws said to me: ‘What work does your father do?’ So I said, ‘He died’. So he^asws expressed condolences and mercy. He (the narrator) said, ‘Then he^asws said to me: ‘Did he leave anything?’ I said, ‘No’. He^asws said: ‘So from where did you perform Hajj?’ So I initiated and narrated to him with the story of the man. So he^asws did not leave me to be free from it until he^asws said to me: ‘So what did you do regarding the one thousand (Dirhams)?’ I said, ‘I returned it to its owner’. So he^asws said to me: ‘You have done well’. And he^asws said to me: ‘Shall I^asws advise you?’ I said, ‘Yes, may I be sacrificed for you^asws! So he^asws said: ‘Upon you is with the truthfulness of the discussion and the repayment of the entrustment. You would share the people in their wealth like this!’ – and he^asws gathered his^asws two fingers together. He (the narrator) said, ‘So I memorised that from him^asws, and I attained three hundred thousand Dirhams’.

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