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

4-45 حدثنا أبومحمد عبدوس بن علي بن العباس الجرجاني بسمرقند في منزله قال: حدثنا أبومحمد بندار بن إبراهيم بن عيسى قال: حدثنا عمار بن رجاء قال: حدثنا داود بن داود قال: حدثنا أبوهرمز نافع بن عبد الله الخراساني قال: سمعت عطاء بن أبي رباح يحدث، عن عبد الله بن عباس قال: قدم قبيصة بن مخارق الهلالي على رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله فسلم عليه ورحب به، ثم قال: ما جاء بك يا قبيصة؟ قال: يا رسول الله كبرت سني، وضعفت قوتي، وهنت على أهلي، وعجزت عن أشياء قد كنت أحملها فعلمني كلمات ينفعنـي الله بهن وأوجـز، فانـيرجل نسي، فقال له: كيف قلت يا قبيصة؟فأعاده، ثم قال له: كيف قلت؟ فأعاده، ثم قال له: كيف قلت؟ فأعاد فقال: ما بقي حولك حجر ولا شجر ولا مدر إلا وقد بكى رحمة لك، يا قبيصة احفظ عني: أما لدنياك فقل: ثلاث مرات إذا صليت الغداة "سبحان الله وبحمده، سبحان الله العظيم وبحمده ولا حول ولا قوة إلا بالله" فانك إذا قلتهن آمنت من عمى وجذام وبرص وفالج، وأما لآخرتك فقل "اللهم اهدني من عندك، وأفض علي من فضلك، وانشر علي من رحمتك، وأنزل علي من بركاتك" قال فجعل رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله يقولهن وقبيصة يعقد عليهن أصابعه، فقال أبوبكر وعمر: إن خالك هذا يا رسول الله لشد ما عقد عليهن أصابعه يعني على الكلمات الاربع فقال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله: إن وافى بهن يوم القيامة لم يدعهن متعمدا فتح له أربعة أبواب من الجنة يدخل من أيها شاء. قال نافع: فحدثت بهذا الحديث جارا لي جليسا للحسن فحدث به الحسن فقال له: ايتني به، فأتيته فسألني عن الحديث فحدثته فقال: ما أغلى حديثك هذا يا خراساني عندي وأرخصه عندك، والله لقد اوطئ رجل راحلته حتى قدم على صاحب الحديث وهو والي مصر فقال: إني لم آتك لشئ مما في يدك، ثم سأله عن الحديث ثم انصرف

4-45 The Georgian Abu Muhammad Abdus ibn Ali ibn al-Ab’bas in his house in Samarqand narrated that Abu Muhammad Bindar ibn Ibrahim ibn Isa quoted Am’mar ibn Raja, on the authority of Davood ibn Davood, on the authority of Abu Hormoz Nafe’ah ibn Abdullah al-Khorasani that he had heard Ata ibn Abi Ribah quote on the authority of Abdullah Ibn Abbas , “Qabisa ibn Mukhariq al-Hilaly came to God’s Prophet (MGB) and greeted him.Then the Prophet (MGB) asked him, ‘O Qabisa! What have you come here for?’ He said, ‘O Prophet of God! I have become old, lost my power, been belittled near my next of kin, and am unable to do what I used to do. Please teach me some words that I may benefit from God. Please shorten them since I quickly forget. The Prophet (MGB) asked, ‘O Qabisa! What didyou say?’ Qabisa repeated his statement. Then the Prophet (MGB) asked him, ‘O Qabisa! What did you say?’ Qabisa repeated. Then the Prophet (MGB) asked him, ‘O Qabisa! What did you say?’ Qabisa repeated. Then the Prophet (MGB) said, ‘Nothing is left around you including all the rocks, trees and stones which have not cried in sympathizing with you. O Qabisa! Learn this from me. For the benefits in this world, you should say the following thrice after your morning prayer, ‘Subhanallah va bihamde, subhanallah al-Azim va bihamde va la hule va la quwata illa billah.’ Once you do that you would be protected against blindness, leprosy, vitiligo and paralysis. And as for the Hereafter you should say, ‘Allahuma ihdani min indeka, vafiz ala min fazlika, vanshur ala min rahmateka, vanzil ala min barakateka.’The Prophet (MGB) said these supplications and Qabisa counted them with his fingers. Then Abu Bakr and Umar said, ‘O Prophet of God! This uncle of yours counts these four sayings very nicely with his fingers.’Then the Prophet (MGB) said, ‘On the Resurrection Day, he will not forget these supplications. They shall open up four of the gates of Paradise and he can enter Paradise from any gate he pleases.’ Nafe’ah (ibn Abdullah al-Khorasani) said, ‘I narrated this tradition for one of my neighbors who was a friend of Al-Hassan (al-Basry). He narrated it for Al-Hassan (al-Basry). Al-Hassan (al-Basry) had asked him to bring me to him. I went to see Al-Hassan (al-Basry). He asked me about this narration. I reiterated it. He told me, ‘O (Nafe’ah ibn Abdullah) al-Khorasani! This narration is highly esteemed by me, while it is of little value to you. A man had to drive a camel to Egypt to get this narration from the governor of Egypt who knew it. That man told the governor of Egypt, ‘I have not come to take anything from you. I have just come to hear this narration and return.’

Al-Khiṣāl

Book 5, Chapter 34