(The book) ‘Jamie Al Akhbar’ – ‘Rasool-Allah -saww said...
(The book) ‘Jamie Al Akhbar’ – ‘Rasool-Allah -saww said: ‘The Paradise is a house for the generous ones’’. [10] – وَ قَالَ الصَّادِقُ ع السَّخِيُّ الْكَرِيمُ الَّذِي يُنْفِقُ مَالَهُ فِي حَقٍّ. And Al-Sadiq -asws said: ‘The generous, the benevolent is the one who spends his wealth in a right (way)’’. [11] – رُوِيَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ: لَجَاهِلٌ سَخِيٌّ أَفْضَلُ مِنْ سَائِحٍ بَخِيلٍ.
It is reported from Abu Abdullah -asws having said: ‘An ignorant generous one is superior to a wandering miser’’. [12] – وَ فِي حَدِيثٍ آخَرَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص لَشَابٌّ مُرَهَّقٌ فِي الذُّنُوبِ سَخِيٌّ أَحَبُّ إِلَى اللَّهِ مِنْ شَيْخٍ عَابِدٍ بَخِيلٍ. And in another Hadeeth, ‘From Abu Abdullah -asws having said: ‘Rasool-Allah -saww said: ‘A generous youth immersed in sins is more Beloved to Allah -azwj than a miserly worshipping old man’’.
[13] – الْحَسَنُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ الْوَشَّاءُ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا الْحَسَنِ الرِّضَا ع يَقُولُ السَّخِيُّ قَرِيبٌ مِنَ اللَّهِ قَرِيبٌ مِنَ الْجَنَّةِ قَرِيبٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ بَعِيدٌ مِنَ النَّارِ وَ الْبَخِيلُ بَعِيدٌ مِنَ اللَّهِ بَعِيدٌ مِنَ الْجَنَّةِ بَعِيدٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ قَرِيبٌ مِنَ النَّارِ.
Al-Hassan Bin Ali Al Washa who said, ‘I heard Abu Al-Hassan Al-Reza -asws saying: ‘The generous one is closer to Allah -azwj , closer to the Paradise, closer to the people, far from the Fire, while the miser is far from Allah -azwj , far from the Paradise, far from the people, closer to the Fire’’.
[14] – وَ قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ص الرِّجَالُ أَرْبَعَةٌ سَخِيٌّ وَ كَرِيمٌ وَ بَخِيلٌ وَ لَئِيمٌ فَالسَّخِيُ الَّذِي يَأْكُلُ وَ يُعْطِي وَ الْكَرِيمُ الَّذِي لَا يَأْكُلُ وَ يُعْطِي وَ الْبَخِيلُ الَّذِي يَأْكُلُ وَ لَا يُعْطِي وَ اللَّئِيمُ الَّذِي لَا يَأْكُلُ وَ لَا يُعْطِي. And the Prophet -saww said: ‘The men are four – a generous, a benevolent, a miser, and dishonourable.
The generous is the one who eats and feeds, and the benevolent is the one who does not eat and feeds, and the miser is the one who eats and does not feed, and the dishonourable is the one who neither eats nor feeds’’.
[15] لي، الأمالي للصدوق ابْنُ نَاتَانَةَ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ فَضَّالٍ عَنْ غَالِبِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ عَنْ شُعَيْبٍ الْعَقَرْقُوفِيِّ عَنِ الصَّادِقِ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ ع قَالَ: مَنْ مَلَكَ نَفْسَهُ إِذَا رَغِبَ وَ إِذَا رَهِبَ وَ إِذَا اشْتَهَى وَ إِذَا غَضِبَ وَ إِذَا رَضِيَ حَرَّمَ اللَّهُ جَسَدَهُ عَلَى النَّارِ.
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