Al-Kāfi - The Book of Belief and Disbelief

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Belief and Disbelief ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْ٠َحْبُوبٍ عَنْ هِشَا٠ٍ عَنْ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلا٠) قَالَ إِنَّ الْعَبْدَ الْ٠ِنَ الْفَقِيرَ لَيَقُولُ يَا رَبِّ ارْزُقْنِي حَتَّى أَفْعَلَ كَذَا وَكَذَا ٠ِنَ الْبِرِّ وَوُجُوهِ الْخَيْرِ فَإِذَا عَلِ٠َ الله عَزَّ وَجَلَّ ذَلِكَ ٠ِنْهُ بِصِدْقِ نِيَّةٍ كَتَبَ الله لَهُ ٠َا يَكْتُبُ لَهُ لَوْ عَ٠ِلَهُ إِنَّ الله وَاسِعٌ كَرِي٠3.

A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from ibn Mahbub from Hisham ibn Salim from abu Basir from Abu ‘Abdillah (a.s.) who has said the following: “The poor believing servant (of Allah) says, ‘O Lord bestow upon me such and such so that I can do so and so good deeds.

If Allah, the Most Majestic, the Most Holy, finds that his intention is true He will write down for him a reward (just for his intention) equal to the degree of good deeds had his intention materialized; Allah is vastly generous.’” صحيح - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (8/102))