وَ قَالَ ص مَنْ كَظَمَ غَيْظاً وَ هُوَ قَادِرٌ عَلَى...
وَ قَالَ ص مَنْ كَظَمَ غَيْظاً وَ هُوَ قَادِرٌ عَلَى إِنْفَاذِهِ وَ حَلُمَ عَنْهُ أَعْطَاهُ اللَّهُ أَجْرَ شَهِيدٍ أَلَا وَ مَنْ تَطَوَّلَ عَلَى أَخِيهِ فِي غِيبَةٍ سَمِعَهَا فِيهِ فِي مَجْلِسٍ فَرَدَّهَا عَنْهُ رَدَّ اللَّهُ مِنْهُ أَلْفَ بَابٍ مِنَ السُّوءِ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَ الْآخِرَةِ فَإِنْ هُوَ لَمْ يَرُدَّهَا وَ هُوَ قَادِرٌ عَلَى رَدِّهَا كَانَ عَلَيْهِ كَوِزْرِ مَنِ اغْتَابَهُ سَبْعِينَ مَرَّةً.
And he -saww said: ‘One who swallows anger while he is able upon implementing it and forbears from it, Allah -azwj will Give him Recompense of a martyr; and the one who graces upon his brother regarding a backbite he had heard regarding him, so he repels it from him, Allah -azwj will Repel from him a thousand doors of evil in the world and the Hereafter.
But if he does not repel it while he is able upon repelling it, upon him would be like a burden (of sins) of the one who had backbitten him, seventy times’’.
[12] Backbiter is outside from the Wilayah of Allah -azwj and inside the wilayah of Satan -la الأمالي للصدوق أَبِي عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ قُتَيْبَةَ عَنْ حَمْدَانَ بْنِ سُلَيْمَانَ عَنْ نُوحِ بْنِ شُعَيْبٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْمَاعِيلَ عَنْ صَالِحٍ عَنْ عَلْقَمَةَ قَالَ قَالَ الصَّادِقُ ع وَ قَدْ قُلْتُ لَهُ يَا ابْنَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ أَخْبِرْنِي عَمَّنْ تُقْبَلُ شَهَادَتُهُ وَ مَنْ لَا تُقْبَلُ (The book) ‘Al Amaali’ of Al Sadouq – My father, from Ali Bin Muhammad Bin Quteyba, from Hamdan Bin Suleyman, from Nuh Bin Shueyb, from Muhammad Bin Ismail, from Salih, from Alqamah who said, ‘Al-Sadiq -asws said, and I had said to him -asws , ‘O son -asws of Rasool-Allah -saww !
Inform me about the one whose testimony is acceptable, and the one whose testimony is not acceptable’. فَقَالَ يَا عَلْقَمَةُ كُلُّ مَنْ كَانَ عَلَى فِطْرَةِ الْإِسْلَامِ جَازَتْ شَهَادَتُهُ He -asws said: ‘O Alqamah! Every one who were to be upon the nature of Al-Islam, his testimony is allowed’’.
قَالَ فَقُلْتُ لَهُ تُقْبَلُ شَهَادَةُ مُقْتَرِفٍ لِلذُّنُوبِ He (the narrator) said, ‘I said to him -asws , ‘Will the testimony of an acknowledger of the sins be acceptable?’ فَقَالَ يَا عَلْقَمَةُ لَوْ لَمْ تُقْبَلْ شَهَادَةُ الْمُقْتَرِفِينَ لِلذُّنُوبِ لَمَا قُبِلَتْ إِلَّا شَهَادَاتُ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ وَ الْأَوْصِيَاءِ صَلَوَاتُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِمْ لِأَنَّهُمْ هُمُ الْمَعْصُومُونَ دُونَ سَائِرِ الْخَلْقِ He -asws said: ‘O Alqamah!
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