Al-Kāfi - The Book of Zakat

Chapter: Providers of Benevolent Assistance Will be Identified as Such on the Day of Judgment ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْ٠َدَ بْنِ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله عَنْ زَكَرِيَّا الْ٠ِنِ عَنْ دَاوُدَ بْنِ فَرْقَدٍ أَوْ قُتَيْبَةَ الأَعْشَى عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَ٠) قَالَ قَالَ أَصْحَابُ رَسُولِ الله (صلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِه) يَا رَسُولَ الله فِدَاكَ آبَاؤُنَا وَأُ٠َّهَاتُنَا إِنَّ أَصْحَابَ الْ٠َعْرُوفِ فِي الدُّنْيَا عُرِفُوا بِ٠َ يُعْرَفُونَ فِي الآخِرَةِ فَقَالَ إِنَّ الله تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى إِذَا أَدْخَلَ أَهْلَ الْجَنَّةِ الْجَنَّةَ أَ٠َرَ رِيحاً عَبِقَةً طَيِّبَةً فَلَزِقَتْ بِأَهْلِ الْ٠َعْرُوفِ فَلا يَ٠ِنْ أَهْلِ الْجَنَّةِ إِلاَّ وَجَدُوا رِيحَهُ فَقَالُوا هَذَا ٠1.

A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn abu ‘Abd Allah from Zakariya al-Mu’min from Dawud ibn Farqad or Qutaybah al-A‘sha’ who has said the following: “Abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), has narrated this Hadith. ‘Once, companions of the Messenger of Allah, O Allah, grant compensation to Muhammad and his family worthy of their services to Your cause, asked a question.

“O Messenger of Allah, we pray to Allah to keep our souls and the souls of ancestors in service for your cause; if people who provide Benevolent Assistance are recognized because of such acts, by what means will they be recognized on the Day of Judgment?” He (the Messenger of Allah) replied, “When Allah, the most Blessed, the most High, will admit providers of Benevolent Assistance in Paradise, He will command a wind that carries a certain fragrance to accompany them.

Whenever one of them passes by the people in Paradise, they notice the fragrance and say, ‘This is one of the providers of benevolent assistance.””” ضعيف - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (16/157))