According to a tradition from Imam Mohammed Baqir (a.

According to a tradition from Imam Mohammed Baqir (a.s.), a man possessing the following four characteristics will be forgiven and will be placed highly in the values of realms of heaven; one who shelters an orphan and takes interestin the circumstances and problems in which an orphan is placed and is kind to him in a fatherly way, giving him the love of parents; one who is kind and helpful to weak; one who spends on his parents and is kind and thoughtful while looking towards them; and lastly, one who is not furious in his behaviour towards his servant or slave and helps him the work one has ordered, and refrains from ordering him such task which is beyond his capacity.

It is stated in reliable traditions from the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) that a person is ordered to give to his slave what he himself eats and to make him dress in the manner in which he himself dresses. Another tradition states that there are three types of people who will not be cruel to you if you are not cruel to them, namely, a person who is mean, secondly, a lady who is your wife, thirdly, a person who is your slave.

According to a reliable tradition, one day a slave of Imam Ja'far-e-Sadiq (a.s.) disappered. The Holy Imam (a.s.) hunted for his slave and at last found him sleeping at a certain place. The Imam (a.s.) sat near his head and started fanning him until he awoke. When the slave got up, the Imam (a.s.) only said that it was not adivsable for him to sleep during night as well as day, and that he should sleep only during the night.

A reliable tradition from the Imam (a.s.) states that the prayers of three types of people are not answered and accepted. These are, a slave who runs away from his master (until the time he does not give himself up to his master), a person who leads the prayers when those who pray behind him are not ready to accept him, and lastly the wife whose husband is unhappy with her.