Introduction

God is One and Only

Abandoning the Present to Attain the Promised

Oppressive Characteristics

Characteristics Rooted in Love for Religion

One Characteristic for Five Characteristics

A Characteristic for a Characteristic

A Saving Characteristic

The Loftiest Characteristic of the Religion

No Two Things Combined which are Better than the Combination of Two Characteristics

A Characteristic that is the Honor of This World and the Hereafter

The Most Knowledgeable Person Is One who Combines One Characteristic with Another One

There Is One True Prosperity And One True Misery

A Characteristic for Which the People Deserve to be Rewarded or Punished

A Characteristic that Is the Noblest Holy War

The Hardest Thing is One Characteristic that Cannot Be Avoided Unless We Abandon Another Characteristic

A Believer’s Honor Is in One Characteristic and His Glory Is In Another Characteristic

One Characteristic Is the Key to All Evil

A Characteristic Due to Justice

A Characteristic Due to Which We Are Interested in How Others Judge About Us

Seek Nearness to God with One Characteristic

God Has Not Tested the Servants with Anything Harder Than One Characteristic

A Characteristic that Is the Result of Being Kind

A Characteristic that Stabilizes One’s Faith and One that Makes Him Lose His Faith

A Characteristic that Destroys a Believer’s Dignity

A Good Characteristic Which No Other Characteristic Is Better Than, and a Bad Characteristic That No Other Characteristic Is Worse Than

A Characteristic That Guarantees Who Will Not Become Poor

The Form of Chivalry of the Members of the Holy Household

A Characteristic Due to One’s Chivalry

A Characteristic that Is Not Good for a Dignified Man

God Loves One Characteristic and Despises One Characteristic

One Who has This Characteristic Would Not Be Thankful for Blessings

A Characteristic Due to Humbleness

A Characteristic that Is Close to Blasphemy and A Characteristic that Might Change Destiny

A Characteristic that Destroyed Previous Nations

Martyrdom Is Expiation for Every Sin Except for One’s Debt

God the Almighty Has Sent Muhammad (sw) and His Nation a Gift That He Has Not Given to Any Other Nation

A Characteristic that One Should Have If He Wants to Increase Goodness in His House

God Will Look at Whom He Likes. Once He Looks at Him, He Shall Grant Him One of Three Gifts

The Hereafter is the Wedding of the Pious Ones

A Characteristic That is Like its Opposite

The Most Wicked People Are Those Who Are Respected for Possessing One Characteristic

A Characteristic in This World is Abstinence, and a Characteristic That is Gratitude for all Blessings

Nothing Deserves to Be Restrained More Than the Tongue

Whoever Raises his Aspirations Does Wrong

Good Deeds Are Recorded for a Muslim as Long as He Remains Quiet

A Characteristic Having Which Will Result in God Saving You From the Fear of the Hereafter

The Most Intelligent Characteristic

The Most Pious, the Best Worshipping, the Most Ascetic and the Most Hard-Working People

Becoming Sorry Is the Same as Repenting

Whoever Earns More Than His Meals fom This World

A Characteristic That Deserves to Be Willed

A Characteristic That Causes One to Be Thrown Out and a Characteristic That Causes One to Be Joined

Lofty Characteristics and Bad Characteristics for the People of the World

There Is No Honor Except Through One Characteristic. There Is No Nobility Except Through Another Characteristic

When God Loves a Servant He Will Make Him Suffer from a Great Calamity

A Characteristic That Leads to Hemorrhoids

A Hand on Which There Is an Iron Ring Is Not Clean

Do Not Respond to Whoever Talks Before He Greets You

A Characteristic That if Practiced Implies Despise for Muhammad’s Religion

Only One of the Proverbs of the Prophets Has Remained

When God Wishes a Servant Well, He Will Expedite His Punishment in This World, and When He Wishes Someone Bad, He Will Procrastinate His Punishment

Be Patient with the Enemies of the Blessings

The Prophet (sw) and Ali Ibn Abi Talib Were Created from the Same Root

A Characteristic That is Gratitude for All Blessings

Religion Is the Same as Love

When Two Believers Shake Hands They Shall Depart from Each Other Void of Any Sins

A Characteristic That Revives the Hearts

A Characteristic That Revives the Affairs of the Almighty God’s Proofs

God the Almighty Has Not Created Anything More Delightful Than This Characteristic

A Characteristic That Constitutes Nine-Tenths of Religion

Whoever is Pleased with His Destiny or is Displeased with it

A Characteristic for Which Even Red-Haired Camels Are Not Loved

A Characteristic That Increases the Daily Bread

A Characteristic That Leads to Hypocrisy and Poverty

The First Gift Given to a Believer Due to a Characteristic

A Characteristic for Which One Who Has No Good Deeds is Forgiven on the Resurrection Day

A Characteristic That is the Root of All Sins

How Awkward It Is If a Man Enters Heaven Having Lost His Honor

A Characteristic Doing Which Will Cause the Almighty God to Have Mercy Upon You

A Characteristic Doing Which Will Cause Increased Good for One’s House

On Him Whose Health Has Overcome His Illness but He Treats Himself and Dies

A Characteristic Which a Believer Avoids

Nothing Ruins Faith as Much as One Characteristic Does

One Who Lives to See his Successor Is Prosperous

A Believer’s Honor is More Than That of the Ka’ba

It Suffices for a Believer to See God’s Aid in the Form of His Enemies Engaged in the Almighty God’s Disobedience

A Gift Will Eliminate Animosities

Prosperous Be the One Who is Indifferent

A Characteristic That Will Make One Poor in the Hereafter

A Group of People Who Are the Masters of Heaven

God’s Prophet Made His Ablutions One Organ at a Time

The Characteristic That Is the Best Goodness

The Prophet Put off His Special Prayer for One Characteristic

A Characteristic That is the Best Form of Worshipping and a Characteristic That is the Noblest Form of Being Religious

What Is A Lot but Its Doers Are A Few

A Characteristic That Constitutes Half of the Religion

A Characteristic That is the Best Thing Given to a Muslim

The Prophet and Ali Ibn Abi Talib Were Created from One Light

A Servant’s Well-Being Depends Upon the Well-Being of One of His Organs

3-217 حدثنا أبوأحمد محمد بن جعفر البندار الشافعي بفرغانة قال: حدثنا أبوالعباس الحمادي قال: حدثنا صالح بن محمد البغدادي قال: حدثنا علي بن الجعد، قال: أخبرنا سلام أبوالمنذر قال: سمعت ثابت البناني ولم أسمع من غيره يحدث عن أنس بن مالك، عن النبي صلى الله عليه وآله قال: حبب إلي من الدنيا النساء. والطيب، وقرة عيني في الصلاة

3-217 Abu Ahmad Muhammad ibn Ja’far al-Bandar al-Shafe’ee in Furqan narrated that Abul Abbas al-Himady quoted Salih ibn Muhammad al-Baghdady, on the authority of Ali ibn al-Ja’ed, on the authority of Salam ibn al-Monzar who narrated that he had heard Sabet al-Banany, and had not heard it from anyone else, on the authority of Anas ibn Malik that God’s Prophet (MGB) said, “What I love the most in this world are women and perfume. And praying lights up my eyes.”

3-218 حدثنا أبوعلي الحسن بن علي بن محمد بن [علي بن] عمر [و] العطار ببلخ قال: حدثنا أبومصعب محمد بن أحمد بن مصعب بن القاسم السلمي بترمذ قال: حدثنا أبومحمد أحمد بن محمد بن إسحاق بن هارون الآملي بآمل قال: حدثنا أحمد بن محمد بن غالب البصري الزاهد ببغداد قال: حدثنا يسار مولى أخا أنس بن مالك، عن أنس، عن النبي صلى الله عليه وآله: قال: حبب إلي من دنياكم النساء والطيب، وجعل قرة عيني في الصلاةقال مصنف هذا الكتاب رضي الله عنه: إن الملحدين يتعلقون بهذا الخبر ويقولون: إن النبي صلى الله عليه وآله قال: حبب إلي من دنياكم النساء والطيب، وأراد أن يقول الثالث فندم وقال: "وجعل قرة عيني في الصلاة" وكذبوا لانه صـلى الله عليهوآله لم يكن مراده بهذا الخبر إلا الصلاة وحدها لانه صلى الله عليه وآله قال: ركعتين يصليهما المتزوج أفضل عند الله من سبعين ركعة يصليها غير متزوج، وإنما حبب الله إليه النساء لاجل الصلاة وهكذا قال: ركعتين يصليهما متعطر أفضل من سبعين ركعة يصليها غير متعطر، وإنما حبب الله إليه الطيب أيضا لاجل الصلاة، ثم قال عليه السلام "وجعل قرة عيني في الصلاة " لان الرجل لو تطيب وتزوج، ثم لم يصل لم يكن له في التزويج والطيب فضل ولا ثواب

3-218 Abu Ali al-Hassan ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn (Ali ibn) Umar and al-Attar in Balkh narrated that Abu Mus’ab Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ishaq al-Salmy at Tormoz quoted Abu Muhammad Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn Amoli in Amol, on the authority of Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Qalib al-Basry az-Zahed in Baghdad, on the authority of Yasar - the servant of Anas ibn Malik , on the authority of Anas ibn Malik that the Prophet (MGB) said, “What I love the most in this world are women and perfume. And praying lights up my eyes .”The compiler of the book - may God be pleased with him - said, “The atheists strongly rely on this narration and say that when the Prophet (MGB) said ‘What I love the most in this world are women and perfume,’ he wanted to go on and say something else for the third, but he became sorry and continued it by saying, ‘And praying lights up my eyes.’ However, these people lie and the Prophet (MGB) had no intentions but to stress justthe importance of marriage in this narration, since he (MGB) has said, ‘Two units of prayers said by a married person is nobler in the Opinion of God than seventy units of prayers said by an unmarried person.’He (MGB) also said, ‘Two units of prayers said by a person wearing a good perfume is nobler in the Opinion of God than seventy units of prayers said by a person not wearing good perfume.’ God likes one to wear perfume when he wants to pray.”Then the Prophet (MGB) added, ‘‘And praying lights up my eyes. Whoever wears perfume and has a wife but doesn’t pray will not get any divine reward from putting on perfume or making love with his wife.”

Al-Khiṣāl

Book 4, Chapter 172