[18] عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ...

[18] عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ عَنْ مَنْصُورِ بْنِ الْعَبَّاسِ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جَنَاحٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو مَسْعُودٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ مَنْ قَالَ أَرْبَعَ مَرَّاتٍ إِذَا أَصْبَحَ الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ فَقَدْ أَدَّى شُكْرَ يَوْمِهِ وَ مَنْ قَالَهَا إِذَا أَمْسَى فَقَدْ أَدَّى شُكْرَ لَيْلَتِهِ .

A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Khalid, from Mansour Bin Al Abbas, from Saeed Bin Janah who said, ‘Abu Masoud narrated to me, from: Abu Abdullah -asws said: ‘The one who says four (4) times when it is the morning, الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ’ ‘The Praise is for Allah -azwj Lord -azwj of the worlds’, so he has paid the thanks for his day, and the one who says it when it is the evening, so he has paid his thanks for his night’.

[19] مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سِنَانٍ عَنْ يَعْقُوبَ بْنِ شُعَيْبٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) أَنَّهُ كَانَ يَقُولُ Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Muhammad Bin Sinan, from Yaqoub Bin Shuayb, that: Abu Abdullah -asws was saying (prescribed the following supplication): يَا مَنْ يَشْكُرُ الْيَسِيرَ وَ يَعْفُو عَنِ الْكَثِيرِ وَ هُوَ الْغَفُورُ الرَّحِيمُ اغْفِرْ لِيَ الذُّنُوبَ الَّتِي ذَهَبَتْ لَذَّتُهَا وَ بَقِيَتْ تَبِعَتُهَا .

‘O the One Who Thanks for the less, and Forgives from the more, and He -azwj is the Forgiving, the Merciful. Forgive my sins for me whose pleasure has (already) gone, and there remains its consequence (the load of the regret)’’. [20] اَلْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي هَدانا لِهذا وَ ما كُنَّا لِنَهْتَدِيَ لَوْ لا أَنْ هَدانَا اللَّهُ Praise be to Allah -azwj who has guided us here, and if it was not for Allah -azwj ‘s Guidance, we would not have been guided.

(An extract from Ziyarah of Amir-ul-Momineen -asws ). [21] وَ هُوَ يَوْمُ التَّهْنِئَةِ يُهَنِّي بَعْضُكُمْ بَعْضاً فَإِذَا لَقِيَ الْمُؤْمِنُ أَخَاهُ يَقُولُ And it is a day (18 th Zilhajj) of the congratulations, some of you would be congratulating the others.

So when a Momin meets his brother, he would be saying: اَلْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ‏ الَّذِي‏ جَعَلَنَا مِنَ‏ الْمُتَمَسِّكِينَ‏ بِوَلَايَةِ أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ‏ وَ الْأَئِمَّةِ عَلَيْهِمُ السَّلَامُ ‘The Praise is for Allah -azwj Who Made us to be from the adherents with the Wilayah of Amir Al-Momineen -asws and the Imams -asws ’. (An extract from a lengthy Hadith on Ghadeer day).