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However, at times, even the children and fortune of people of bad character may increase as a reward to kindness to relatives and false promises destroy homes and generations. In another tradition it was stated that three types of people will never be able to enter heaven, those who always take wine, who always indulge in magic and lastly, those who have always withheld dispersing kindness.

It is also upheld that those who fulfill and encourage the obligations of their relatives will be rewarded by being elevated to a thousand and two thousand stages, the distance between each of them being that of a complete hundred years.

The first stage will be of silver, the second will be of gold, the third of pearl (marvarid), the fourth will be of emeral, the fifth of zaberad (jade), the next of musk, followed by that of umber, camphor, and so on and so forth, the stages being made from all the materials which the Almighty God has promised. A reliable tradition from the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) quotes that the Prophet, on the holy night of Me'raj saw a person holding fast the heavens and complaining about one of his relatives.

The Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) asked the Almighty God the proximity of relationship between the person and the relative he was complaining about. God said unto the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) that there was a distance of forty generations between the man and his cousin.

In a tradition from Imam Mohammed Baqir (a.s.), it is stated that when a person hits his slave (male or female), without any justification according to Shara and even if the act is within the limits fixed by God, the only way of accounting for that act is by freeing that slave. Another tradition from the same Imam (a.s.) states that Zarrara asked him about the attitude of a master towards his slaves.

The Imam (a.s.) answered that an act unintentionally done by them is not punishable, but when they are persistantly and intentionally disobeying the will of the master, then they can be punished. When Zarrara further questioned about the limit of punishment, the Imam (a.s.) stated that it should not be more than three or four whips. According to Imam Ja'far-e-Sadiq (a.s.), if a slave is Momin and has worked for one for seven years, then he should be freed.

After that taking work from him is not permissible. The religious scholars and divines have restricted this hadeeth of freeing the slave after seven years as Sunnate Mowakkedah.