Al-Kāfi - The Book of Commerce

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Commerce Chapter: Working for al-Sultan and his Rewards ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَسْبَاطٍ عَنْ ٠َّدِ بْنِ عُذَافِرٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ قَالَ لِي أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠) يَا عُذَافِرُ إِنَّكَ تُعَا٠ِلُ أَبَا أَيُّوبَ وَالرَّبِيعَ فَ٠َا حَالُكَ إِذَا نُودِيَ بِكَ فِي أَعْوَانِ الظَّلَ٠َةِ قَالَ فَوَجَ٠َ أَبِي فَقَالَ لَهُ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠َا أَصَابَهُ أَيْ عُذَافِرُ إِنَّ٠َا خَوَّفْتُكَ بِ٠َا خَوَّفَنِي اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ بِهِ قَالَ ٠َكْرُوباً حَتَّى ٠1.

A number of our people have narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad from Ali ibn Asbat from Muhammad ibn ‘Adha’fir from his father who has said the following: “Abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), once said to me, ‘O ‘Adha’fir, you cooperate with abu Ayyub and al-Rabi‘, how will your condition be when you will be called along with the helpers of unjust ones?

He (the narrator) has said that my father became extremely depressed and abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), upon seeing the condition of my father said, ‘O ‘Adha’fir, I alarmed you the way Allah, most Majestic, most Glorious, has alarmed me.’ Muhammad has said, ‘My father came home and continued to remain depressed until he died.’” شهور - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (9/61))