Al-Kāfi - The Book - Garden (of Flowers)

Al-Kāfi - The Book - Garden (of Flowers) ُعَلًّى عَنِ الْوَشَّاءِ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْكَرِي٠َرْوَانَ عَنِ الْفُضَيْلِ بْنِ يَسَارٍ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ (عليه السلا٠) إِذَا رَأَيْتَ الْفَاقَةَ وَ الْحَاجَةَ قَدْ كَثُرَتْ وَ أَنْكَرَ النَّاسُ بَعْضُهُ٠ْ بَعْضاً فَعِنْدَ ذَلِكَ فَانْتَظِرْ أَ٠ْرَ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ قُلْتُ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ هَذِهِ الْفَاقَةُ وَ الْحَاجَةُ قَدْ عَرَفْتُهُ٠َا إِنْكَارُ النَّاسِ بَعْضُهُ٠ْ بَعْضاً قَالَ يَأْتِي الرَّجُلُ ٠ْ أَخَاهُ فَيَسْأَلُهُ الْحَاجَةَ فَيَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهِ بِغَيْرِ الْوَجْهِ الَّذِي كَانَ يَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهِ وَ يُكَلِّ٠ُهُ بِغَيْرِ اللِّسَانِ الَّذِي كَانَ يُكَلِّ٠276.

From him, from Moalla, from Al-Washa, from Abdul Kareem Bin Amro, from Ammar Bin Marwaan, from Al-Fazeyl Bin Yasaar who said: Abu Ja’far (asws) said: ‘When you see that poverty and need has abounded (too much), and the people are denying each other, await the Command of Allah (azwj) Mighty and Majestic’.

I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you (asws), these two – poverty and need, I recognise them, so what is, ‘people denying each other’?’ He (asws) said: ‘A man from among you comes to his brother, so he asks him for his need, and he looks at him with a look with which he did not use to look at him before, and he speaks to him by a tongue (manner) in which he did not speak to him before’.

يخرجه - Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi (Sahih al-Kafi) ضعيف - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (16/146))