He -asws said to him: ‘ So take out the entirety of whatever you have earned in their offices. So for the one whom you recognise, return his wealth to him, and the one you do not recognise, give in charity with it, and I -asws guarantee the Paradise for you, upon (the Guarantee of) Allah -azwj Mighty and Majestic’. So, the youth kept his head lowered for a long time, then said, ‘I will do it, may I be sacrificed for you -asws ’.
قَالَ ابْنُ أَبِي حَمْزَةَ فَرَجَعَ الْفَتَى مَعَنَا إِلَى الْكُوفَةِ فَمَا تَرَكَ شَيْئاً عَلَى وَجْهِ الْأَرْضِ إِلَّا خَرَجَ مِنْهُ حَتَّى ثِيَابِهِ الَّتِي كَانَتْ عَلَى بَدَنِهِ قَالَ فَقَسَمْتُ لَهُ قِسْمَةً وَ اشْتَرَيْنَا لَهُ ثِيَاباً وَ بَعَثْنَا إِلَيْهِ بِنَفَقَةٍ قَالَ فَمَا أَتَى عَلَيْهِ إِلَّا أَشْهُرٌ قَلَائِلُ حَتَّى مَرِضَ فَكُنَّا نَعُودُهُ قَالَ فَدَخَلْتُ عَلَيْهِ يَوْماً وَ هُوَ فِي السَّوْقِ قَالَ فَفَتَحَ عَيْنَيْهِ ثُمَّ قَالَ لِي يَا عَلِيُّ وَفَى لِي وَ اللَّهِ صَاحِبُكَ قَالَ ثُمَّ مَاتَ Ibn Abu Hamza (the narrator) said, ‘So the youth returned with us to Al-Kufa, and he did not leave anything upon the face of the earth except that he extracted from it, even his clothes which were upon his body.
So I apportioned a share for him and we bought some clothes for him and send these over to him along with expenses. So there did not come upon him except for a few months until he fell sick, and we used to go to console him. So I went over to him one day and he was in the transit (about to die). So he opened his eyes, then said to me, ‘O Ali! By Allah -azwj , your Master -asws has kept his -asws promise to me’. Then he died.
فَتَوَلَّيْنَا أَمْرَهُ فَخَرَجْتُ حَتَّى دَخَلْتُ عَلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) فَلَمَّا نَظَرَ إِلَيَّ قَالَ يَا عَلِيُّ وَفَيْنَا وَ اللَّهِ لِصَاحِبِكَ قَالَ فَقُلْتُ صَدَقْتَ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ هَكَذَا وَ اللَّهِ قَالَ لِي عِنْدَ مَوْتِهِ So we looked after his affairs (funeral etc.) and I came out until I went over to Abu Abdullah -asws . So when he -asws looked at me, he -asws said: ‘O Ali! By Allah -azwj , we -asws have kept our -asws promise to your companion’.
So I said, ‘You -asws have spoken the truth, may I be sacrificed for you -asws ! By Allah -azwj , this is how he said to me at the time of his death’. [18] In a similar Hadith, Imam -asws guarantees the Paradise for a believer if he were to leave the prohibited he was involved in.