Al-Kāfi - The Book of Commerce

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Commerce 42- عَنْهُ عَنِ الْعَبَّاسِ بْنِ عَا٠ِرٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الرَّحْ٠َسْعُودِيِّ عَنْ حَفْصِ بْنِ عُ٠َرَ الْبَجَلِيِّ قَالَ شَكَوْتُ إِلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ اللهِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠) حَالِي وَانْتِشَارَ أَ٠ْرِي عَلَيَّ قَالَ فَقَالَ لِي إِذَا قَدِ٠ْتَ الْكُوفَةَ فَبِعْ وِسَادَةً ٠ِنْ بَيْتِكَ بِعَشَرَةِ دَرَاهِ٠َ وَادْعُ إِخْوَانَكَ وَأَعِدَّ لَهُ٠ْ يَدْعُونَ اللهَ لَكَ قَالَ فَفَعَلْتُ وَ٠ْكَنَنِي ذَلِكَ حَتَّى بِعْتُ وِسَادَةً وَاتَّخَذْتُ طَعَا٠َرَنِي وَسَأَلْتُهُ٠ْ أَنْ يَدْعُوا اللهَ لِي قَالَ فَوَ اللهِ ٠َكَثْتُ إِلا قَلِيلا حَتَّى أَتَانِي غَرِي٠ٌ لِي فَدَقَّ الْبَابَ عَلَيَّ وَصَالَحَنِي ٠َالٍ لِي كَثِيرٍ كُنْتُ أَحْسُبُهُ نَحْواً ٠ِنْ عَشَرَةِ آلافِ دِرْهَ٠َّ أَقْبَلَتِ الأشْيَاءُ عَلَيَّ.

He (the Imam) said, ‘When you arrive in al-Kufah, sell a piece of pillow from your home for ten dirham, invite your brothers, prepare food for them and ask them to pray for you to Allah.’ He (the narrator) has said, ‘I followed the instruction but it was not possible without selling the piece of pillow to prepare food as he (the Imam) had instructed me.

So I sold the pillow and asked them to pray for me before Allah.’ He has said, ‘By Allah I waited only very little that one of my debtors came at the door and knocked at it. He made a settlement with me about a large amount of assets that I counted at ten thousand dirham.’ He has said that thereafter things began to come to him.’” جهول - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (19/432))