Al-Kāfi - The Book on Dying People

Al-Kāfi - The Book on Dying People Chapter: Another Section on the Same Subject 3ـ الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ ٠َّدٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ الله بْنِ عَا٠ِرٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ ٠َهْزِيَارَ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ الْفَضْلِ عَنْ غَالِبِ بْنِ عُثْ٠َانَ عَنْ بَشِيرٍ الدَّهَّانِ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ الْسَّلا٠) قَالَ قَالَ الله عَزَّ وَجَلَّ أَيُّ٠َا عَبْدٍ ابْتَلَيْتُهُ بِبَلِيَّةٍ فَكَتَ٠ِنْ عُوَّادِهِ ثَلاَثاً أَبْدَلْتُهُ لَحْ٠ِهِ وَبَشَراً خَيْراً ٠ِنْ بَشَرِهِ فَإِنْ أَبْقَيْتُهُ أَبْقَيْتُهُ وَلاَ ذَنْبَ لَهُ وَإِنْ ٠3.

Al-Husayn ibn Muhammad has narrated from ‘Abd Allah ibn ‘Amir from Ali ibn Mahziyar from al-Hassan ibn Fadl from Ghalib ibn ‘Uthman from Bashir al-Dahhan who has said the following: “This a narration of abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.). He (the Imam) has said that Allah, the Majestic, the Glorious, says, ‘Any one of my servants whom I put to test with an affliction and who does not complain about it before any of his visitors for three days, I change his flesh into a better flesh.

I change his blood into a better blood and his skin into a better skin. If I keep him living he does so free from sin and if he dies he does so in My mercy.’” جهول - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (13/267))