(The book) ‘Al Khisaal’ – By this chain, from Abu Baseer who said, ‘Abu Ja’far -asws said: ‘When forty years come to the servant, it is said to him, ‘Take your caution for you are without excuse; and a man of forty years isn’t more rightful with the excuse that a man of twenty years, for the one who seeks them is One -azwj and He -azwj isn’t Sleeping from them. Therefore work for what is in front of you of the horrors and leave from you the useless words’’.
[20] الخصال عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ الْعَطَّارِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ الْأَشْعَرِيِّ عَنِ ابْنِ مَعْرُوفٍ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي نَجْرَانَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْقَاسِمِ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْمُغِيرَةِ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ سَمِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ إِذَا بَلَغَ الْمَرْءُ أَرْبَعِينَ سَنَةً آمَنَهُ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ مِنَ الْأَدْوَاءِ الثَّلَاثَةِ الْجُنُونِ وَ الْجُذَامِ وَ الْبَرَصِ (The book) ‘Al Khisaal’ – from his father, from Al Attar, from his father, from Al Ashari, from Ibn Marouf, from Ibn Abu Najran, from Muhammad Bin Al Qasim, Ali Bin Al Mugheira, ‘From Abu Abdullah -asws , He (the narrator) said, ‘I heard him -asws saying: ‘When the man reaches forty years, Allah -azwj Mighty and Majestic Secures him from the three diseases – the insanity, and the leprosy, and the vitiligo.
When he reaches sixty, Allah -azwj Graces him the penitence to Him -azwj . When he reaches the seventy, people of the sky love him. When he reaches eighty, Allah -azwj Commands with affirmation of his good deeds and throw away his evil deed. When he reaches ninety, Allah -azwj Forgives for him whatever had preceded from his sins and whatever is delayed (yet to commit), and he is written as ‘Prisoner of Allah -azwj in His -azwj earth’’.
[21] الخصال وَ فِي حَدِيثٍ آخَرَ فَإِذَا بَلَغَ الْمِائَةَ فَذَلِكَ أَرْذَلُ الْعُمُرِ وَ رُوِيَ أَنَّ أَرْذَلَ الْعُمُرِ أَنْ يَكُونَ عَقْلُهُ عَقْلَ ابْنِ سَبْعِ سِنِينَ. (The book) ‘Al Khisaal’ – ‘And in another Hadeeth: ‘When he reaches one hundred, so that is the worst age’.