[50] عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي...
[50] عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ عُمَرَ بْنِ أُذَيْنَةَ عَنْ زُرَارَةَ قَالَ قُلْتُ لِأَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) مَا تَقُولُ فِي الْأَطْفَالِ الَّذِينَ مَاتُوا قَبْلَ أَنْ يَبْلُغُوا فَقَالَ سُئِلَ عَنْهُمْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) فَقَالَ اللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ بِمَا كَانُوا عَامِلِينَ Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Umar Bin Azina, from Zurara who said, ‘I said to Abu Abdullah -asws , ‘What are you -asws saying regarding the children who died before they reached adulthood?’ So he -asws said: ‘Rasool-Allah -saww was asked about them, so he -saww said: ‘Allah -azwj is more Knowing with what they were doing’.
ثُمَّ أَقْبَلَ عَلَيَّ فَقَالَ يَا زُرَارَةُ هَلْ تَدْرِي مَا عَنَى بِذَلِكَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) قَالَ قُلْتُ لَا فَقَالَ إِنَّمَا عَنَى كُفُّوا عَنْهُمْ وَ لَا تَقُولُوا فِيهِمْ شَيْئاً وَ رُدُّوا عِلْمَهُمْ إِلَى اللَّهِ . Then he -asws turned towards me, so he -asws said: ‘O Zurara! Do you know what is the meaning of what Rasool-Allah -saww said?’ I said, ‘No’.
So he -asws said: ‘But rather it means pause from them and do not be saying anything regarding them, and refer their knowledge to Allah -azwj ’.
[51] عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ مَهْزِيَارَ قَالَ كَتَبَ إِلَى أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلام ) رَجُلٌ يَشْكُو إِلَيْهِ مُصَابَهُ بِوَلَدٍ لَهُ وَ شِدَّةَ مَا يَدْخُلُهُ فَقَالَ وَ كَتَبَ ( عليه السلام ) إِلَيْهِ أَ مَا عَلِمْتَ أَنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ يَخْتَارُ مِنْ مَالِ الْمُؤْمِنِ وَ مِنْ وُلْدِهِ أَنْفَسَهُ لِيَأْجُرَهُ عَلَى ذَلِكَ .
A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Ali Bin Mahziyar who said, ‘A man wrote to Abu Ja’far -asws complaining to him -asws of his difficulty (bereavement) with a child of his, and the intensity of what had entered into him. So he -asws wrote to him: ‘Do you not know that Allah -azwj Mighty and Majestic Chooses from the wealth of the Believer and from his children, his most beloved, in order to Recompense him upon that’.
[52] جَمَاعَةٌ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ الْجَعْفَرِيِّ قَالَ سَمِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ أَذِّنْ فِي بَيْتِكَ فَإِنَّهُ يَطْرُدُ الشَّيْطَانَ وَ يُسْتَحَبُّ مِنْ أَجْلِ الصِّبْيَانِ .
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