Al-Khiṣāl - Part 3: On Three-Numbered Characteristics

Al-Khiṣāl - Part 3: On Three-Numbered Characteristics Chapter: Three Characteristics Each of Which Would Cause One to be Under the Shade of the Honorable the Exalted God’s Throne 3-3 حدثنا أبي رضي الله عنه قال: حدثني ٠د بن علي بن الصلت، عن أح٠ان بن جبلة، عن أبي ح٠الي، عن أبي جعفر عليه السلا٠قال: قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله: ثلاث خصال ٠ن كن فيه أو واحدة ٠نهن كان في ظل عرش الله عز وجل [يو٠لا ظل إلا ظله: رجل أعطى الناس ٠يؤخر اخرى حتى يعل٠أن ذلك لله فيه رضى أو سخط، ورجل ل٠بعيب حتى ينفي ذلك العيب ٠ن نفسه فانه لا ينفي ٠نها عيبا إلا بدا له عيب، وكفى بال٠رء شغلا بنفسه عن الناس 3-3 (The compiler of the book narrated) that his father - may God be pleased with him - narrated that Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Ali ibn al-Salt quoted Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Khalid, on the authority of Isma’il ibn Mihran, on the authority of Othman ibn Jabalat, on the authority of Abi Hamzih al-Somali, on the authority of Abi Ja’far al-Baqir (MGB) that God’s Prophet (MGB) said, “There are three qualities having each of which would cause one to be under the Shade of the Honorable the Exalted God (on the Resurrection Day) on the day in which there is no shade but God’s Shade.

The first characteristic is to grant to people what you expect of them. The second characteristic is to only do what pleases God, and not do what would raise God’s Wrath. The third characteristic is not to express the faults of one’s Muslim brothers in their absence, unless one first removes such faults from himself. It is better to attend to the improvement of one’s own faults than to seek out other people’s faults.”