So he neglected me until when he had eaten it...

So he neglected me until when he had eaten it, and there did not remain from it except for a little, he insisted upon me, ‘Will you not break?’ So I said to him, ‘Why did you not insist before this time?’ So he said, ‘I wanted to educate you with that’.

Then he said, ‘I heard Abu Abdullah -asws saying: ‘Whichever Believing man goes over to his brother and he is Fasting, so he asks him to eat, and he does not inform him of his Fasting to favour upon him with his breaking, Allah -azwj , Majestic is His -azwj Praise, would Write for that day for him, the Fasts of a year’.

Ali Bin Muhammad, from Ibn Jamhour, from one of his companions, from Ali Bin Hadeed who said, ‘I said to Abu Al-Hassan Al-Maazy -asws (7 th Imam -asws ), ‘I go over to the group of people and they are eating, and Al-Asr has arrived, and I am Fasting. So they are saying, ‘Break’’. So he -asws said: ‘Break, for it is superior’.

[20] أبي رحمه الله قال: حدثنا سعد بن عبد الله عن احمد بن محمد، عن محمد ابن الحسن بن علان، عن محمد بن عبد الله، عن عبد الله بن جندب، عن بعض الصادقين عليهم السلام قال: من دخل على اخيه وهو صائم تطوعا فافطر كان له اجران أجر لنيته لصيامه، وأجر لادخال السرور عليه.

My father said, ‘Sa’ad Bin Abdullah narrated to us, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Muhammad Ibn Al Hassan Bin Alaan, from Muhammad Bin Abdullah, from Abdullah Bin Jundab, (It has been narrated) from one of the two truthful ones -asws (5 th or 6 th Imam -asws ), having said: ‘The one who comes over to his brother, and he is Fasting a voluntary (Fast), so he should break it, and there would be double Recompense for him – one Recompense for his intention for his Fast, and one Recompense for making enter the cheerfulness unto him’.

[21] حدثنا احمد بن محمد قال: حدثنا سعد بن عبد الله، عن محمد بن الحسين عن صالح بن عقبة، عن جميل بن دراج قال: قال أبو عبد الله (ع) من دخل على أخيه وهو صائم فافطر عنده ولم يعلمه بصومه فيمن عليه كتب الله له عزوجل صوم سنة.