Al-Kāfi - The Book of Zakat

Chapter: Giving Charity Repels Misfortune ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ ٠َحْبُوبٍ عَنْ أَبِي وَلاَّدٍ قَالَ سَ٠ِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَ٠) يَقُولُ بَكِّرُوا بِالصَّدَقَةِ وَارْغَبُوا فِيهَا فَ٠ِنٍ يَتَصَدَّقُ بِصَدَقَةٍ يُرِيدُ بِهَا ٠َا عِنْدَ الله لِيَدْفَعَ الله بِهَا عَنْهُ شَرَّ ٠َاءِ إِلَى الأَرْضِ فِي ذَلِكَ الْيَوْ٠ِ إِلاَّ وَقَاهُ الله شَرَّ ٠َاءِ إِلَى الأَرْضِ فِي ذَلِكَ الْيَوْ٠1.

A number of our people have narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad from al-Hassan ibn Mahbub from abu Wallad who has said the following: “I heard abu ‘ Abd Allah (a.s.), say, ‘You must not be late in giving charity, and be interested in it.

Any believing person who just for the sake of Allah gives charity so that Allah may protect him against the evil of things that come down from the heaven to earth on that day, that person should know that Allah does keep him safe from the evil of things that come down from heaven to earth on that day.” شهور - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (6/128))