The one who revives a Momin ...
The one who revives a Momin , so it is as if he has revived the people altogether. So if you do not feed him, so you have caused him to died, and if you do feed him, so you have revived him’.
[22] عَنْهُ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ عَنْ صَفْوَانَ بْنِ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَبِي حَمْزَةَ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) مَنْ أَطْعَمَ ثَلَاثَةَ نَفَرٍ مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ أَطْعَمَهُ اللَّهُ مِنْ ثَلَاثِ جِنَانٍ فِي مَلَكُوتِ السَّمَاوَاتِ الْفِرْدَوْسِ وَ جَنَّةِ عَدْنٍ وَ طُوبَى [وَ] شَجَرَةٍ تَخْرُجُ مِنْ جَنَّةِ عَدْنٍ غَرَسَهَا رَبُّنَا بِيَدِهِ From him, from Ahmad, from Safwan Bin Yahya, from Abu Hamza, (It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far -asws having said: ‘Rasool-Allah -saww said: ‘The one who feeds three persons from the Muslims, Allah -azwj would Feed him from three Gardens in the kingdom of the skies – Al-Firdows, and the Garden of Eden, and Tooba, and it is a tree coming out from the Garden of Eden.
Our Lord -azwj Planted it with His -azwj own Hands’’. [23] For detailed Ahadeeth on feeding people see Al Kafi – V 2 – The Book of Eman and Kufr – Ch 85 – https://hubeali.com/books/English-Books/AlKafiVol2/AlKafiV2-TheBookOfBeliefAndDisbelief(7).pdf VERSES 19 & 20 وَتَأْكُلُونَ التُّرَاثَ أَكْلًا لَمًّا {19} And you are devouring the inheritances, devouring indiscriminately [89:19] وَتُحِبُّونَ الْمَالَ حُبًّا جَمًّا {20} And you love the wealth, (with) excessive love [89:20] فضالة عن عبد الله بن بكير عن أبي بصير عن أبي جعفر عليه السلام قال: كان رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله يقول في خطبته سباب المؤمن فسق وقتاله كفر واكل ماله معصية وحرمة ماله كحرمة دمه Fazalat, from Abdullah Bin Bakeyr, from Abu Baseer, (It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far -asws having said: ‘Rasool-Allah -saww was saying in a sermon of his -saww : ‘Insulting the Momin is a transgression, and killing him is disbelief, and devouring his wealth is a disobedience, and the sanctity of his wealth is like the sanctity of his blood’.
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