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

4-19 أخبرني أبوبكر محمد بن علي بن إسماعيل قال: حدثنا أبومحمد عبد الله بن زيدان البلخي فيما قرأه عليه أبوالعباس بن عقدة قال: حدثني علي بن المثنـى قال :حدثني زيد بن حباب قال: حدثني عبد الله بن لهيعة قال: حدثني جعفر بن ربيعة، عن عكرمة، عن ابن عباس قال: قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله: ما في القيامة راكب غيرنا ونحن أربعة،فقام إليه العباس بن عبدالمطلب فقال: من هم يا رسول الله؟ فقال: أما أنا فعلى البراق ووجهها كوجه الانسان وخدها كخد الفرس وعرفها من لؤلؤ مسموط واذناها زبرجدتان خضراوان وعيناها مثل كوكب الزهرة، تتوقدان مثل النجمين المضيئين، لها شعاع مثل شعاع الشمس، ينحدر من نحرها الجمان مطوية الحلق طويلة اليدين والرجلين، لها نفس كنفس الآدميين، تسمع الكلام وتفهمه، وهي فوق الحمار ودون البغل. قال العباس: ومن يا رسول الله؟ قال صلى الله عليه وآله: وأخي صالح على ناقة الله عز وجل التي عقرها قومه، قال العباس: ومن يا رسول الله؟ قال: وعمي حمزة ابن عبدالمطلب أسد الله وأسد رسوله، سيد الشهداء على ناقتي العضباء، قال العباس: ومن يا رسول الله؟ قال: وأخي علي على ناقة من نوق الجنة، زمامها من لؤلؤ رطب عليها محمل من ياقوت أحمر، قضبانه من الدر الابيض على رأسه تاج من نور عليه حلتان خضراوان، بيده لواء الحمد وهو ينادي أشهد أن لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له وأن محمدا رسول الله. فيقول الخلائق ما هذا إلا نبي مرسل أو ملك مقرب، فينادي مناد من بطنان العرش: ليس هذا ملك مقرب، ولا نبي مرسل، ولا حامل عرش، هذا علي بن أبي طالب وصي رسول رب العالمين، وإمام المتقين، وقائد الغرالمحجلينقال مصنف هذا الكتاب رضي الله عنه: هذا حديث غريب لما فيه من ذكر البراق ووصفه، وذكر حمزة بن عبدالمطلب

4-19 Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Isma’il narrated that Abu Muhammad ibn Zaydan al-Balkhi - in what Abul Ab’bas ibn Aqadat recited to him - on the authority of Ali ibn al-Masna, on the authority of Zayd ibn Hobab, on the authority of Abdullah ibn Lahay’at, on the authority of Ja’faribn Rabi’a, on the authority of Akrama, on the authority of Ibn Abbas , “God’s Prophet (MGB) said, ‘There will be no others who will be riding besides the four of us on the Resurrection Day.’Abbas asked, ‘Who will they be?’ The Prophet (MGB) said, ‘I will be riding Al-Boraq. Its face is like that of a man, but its cheeks are like that of a horse. Its wings will be made of woven pearls. Its two ears will be chrysolite green. Its eyes will be like Venus. They will shine like two bright stars with rays like that of the sun. It is fat and has long fire and hind legs. Its soul is similar to that of a man. It can hear and understand. It is bigger than a donkey, but smaller than a mule.’Ab’bas asked, ‘O Prophet of God! Who else?’ The Prophet (MGB) said, ‘And my brother Salih who will be riding the Camel of the Honorable the Exalted God which his people had immolated .’Ab’bas asked, “O Prophet of God! Who else?’ The Prophet (MGB) said, ‘And my uncle Hamzih ibn Abdul Mutalib who was the Lion of God and the Lion of God’s Prophet. He is the Master of the Martyrs who will be riding my camel called Kaswa.’Abbas asked, ‘O Prophet of God! Who else?’ The Prophet (MGB) replied, ‘And my brother Ali who will be riding on one of the camels of Paradise. Its reins will be made of pearls. The people will say, ‘This is either a dispatched Prophet or a nearby-stationed angel.’ Then there will be a call from inside the Threshold saying, ‘This is neither a nearby-stationed angel nor a dispatched Prophet. He is not the Holder of the Throne either. This is Ali ibn Abi Talib (MGB). He is the Trustee of the Messenger of the Lord of the Two Worlds. He is the Divine Leader of the pious ones, and the Leader of those with white foreheads .’”The compiler of the book - may God be pleased with him - said, “This is a strange narration since there is a name of Al-Boraq and how it is. There is also a mention of Hamzih ibn Abdul Mutalib in it.”

4-20 حدثنا أحمد بن محمد بن يحيى العطار قال: حدثنا سعد بن عبد الله قال: حدثنا محمد بن الحسين بن أبي الخطاب، عن عبد الله بن عبدالرحمن الاصم، عن عبد الله البطل عن عمرو بن أبي المقدام، عن أبيه، عن سعيد بن جبير، عن ابن عباس قال: خرج رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله ذات يوم وهو آخذ بيد علي عليه السلام وهو يقول: يا معشر الانصار، يا معشر بني هاشم، يا معشر بني عبدالمطلب أنا محمد، أنا رسول الله إلا أني خلقت من طينة مرحومة في أربعة من أهل بيتي أنا وعلي وحمزة وجعفرفقال قائل: يا رسول الله هؤلاء معك ركبان يوم القيامة؟ فقال: ثكلتك أمك إنه لن يركب يومئذ إلا أربعة أنا وعلي وفاطمة وصالح نبي الله، فأما أنا فعلى البراق وأما فاطمة ابنتي فعلى ناقتي العضباء وأما صالح فعلى ناقة الله التي عقرت، وأما علي فعلى ناقة من نوق الجنة، زمامها من ياقوت، عليه حلتان خضراوان، فيقف بين الجنة والنار وقد الجم الناس [من] العرق يومئذ فتهب ريح من قبل العرش فتنشف عنهم عرقهم فيقول الملائكة والانبياء والصديقون ما هذا إلا ملك مقرب أو نبي مرسل فينادي مناد ما هذا ملك مقرب ولا نبي مرسل ولكنه علي بن أبي طالب أخو رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله في الدنيا والاخرة

4-20 Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Yahya al-Attar narrated that Sa’ed ibn Abdullah quoted on the authority of Muhammad ibn al-Hussein ibn Abil Khat’tab, on the authority of Abdullah ibn Abdul Rahman al-Asim, on the authority of Abdullah ibn al-Batl (who is Abdullah ibn Qasim al-Hazrami), on the authority of Amr ibn Abil Miqdam, on the authority of his father, on the authority of Sa’id ibn Jabeer that Ibn Abbas said, “One day the Prophet of God (MGB) came out while holding Ali’s hand and said, “O Helpers! O Hashemites ! O Bani Abdul Mutalib! I am Muhammad. I am the Messenger of God. Four of us have been made of Forgiven Clay. That is Ali, Hamzih, Ja’far and me.’Someone asked, ‘O Prophet of God! Will these be the riders on the Resurrection Day?’The Prophet (MGB) said, ‘May your mother not experience the sorrow of your death! No one but these four will be riding on the Resurrection Day: Ali, Fatimah, the Prophet Salih and me. I will be riding Al-Boraq. My daughter Fatimah will be riding my camel Kaswa. Salih will be riding the Camel of God which was immolated . Ali will be riding one of the Camels from Paradise. Its reins will be made of pearls. It has two green covers. It will stop between Paradise and Hell. On the day on which the people sweat, there will be a wind from below the Threshold and the people’s sweat will dry up. When the angels, the Prophets and the honest ones see him, they will say, ‘O That is either a nearby-stationed angel or a dispatched Prophet.’ But there will be a caller saying, ‘No. He is neither a nearby-stationed angel nor is he a dispatched Prophet. He is Ali - the brother of God’s Prophet Muhammad in the world and the Hereafter.”

Al-Khiṣāl

Book 5, Chapter 12