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

7-61 حدثنا أبي رضي الله عنه قال: حدثنا سعد بن عبد الله قال، حدثني أحمد ابن الحسين بن سعيد، عن الحسين بن أسد البصري، عن الحسين بن سعيد، عم رواه عن خلف بن حماد، عن رجل، عن أبي عبد الله عليه السلام أنه مر بقوم يحتجمون فقال: ما كان عليكم لو أخرتموه إلى عشية الاحد فكان يكون أنزل للداء

7-61 (The compiler of the book narrated) that his father - may God be pleased with him - narrated that Sa’ed ibn Abdullah quoted Ahmad ibn al-Hussein ibn Sa’id, on the authority of Al-Hussein ibn Asad al-Basry, on the authority of Al-Hussein ibn Sa’id, on the authority of someone who narrated on the authority of Khalaf ibn Himmad, on the authority of someone who quoted Aba Abdullah as-Sadiq (MGB), “Aba Abdullah as-Sadiq (MGB) passed by a group of people who were having blood-letting done for them. He (MGB) told them ‘What would have happened if you had postponed it until Sunday night as that would be more effective in alleviating one’s pains.’”

7-62 حدثنا أبي رضي الله عنه قال: حدثنا محمد بن يحيى العطار، عن سهل ابن زياد الادمي قال: حدثنا أبوالحسن عمر [و] بن سفيان الجرجاني رفع الحديث إلى أبي عبد الله عليه السلام أنه قال لرجل من مواليه: يا فلان مالك لم تخرج؟ قال: جعلت فداك اليوم الاحد، قال: وماللاحد؟ قال الرجل: للحديث الذي جاء عن النبي صل الله عليه وآله أنه قال: احذروا حد الاحد فإن له حدا مثل حد السيف، قال: كذبوا كذبوا ما قال ذلك رسول الله صلى الله علية وآله فإن الاحد اسم من أسماء الله عز وجل، قال: قلت: جعلت فداك فالاثنين؟ قال: سمي باسمهما، قال الرجل: فسمي باسمهما ولم يكونا، فقال له أبوعبد الله: إذا حدثت فافهم أن الله تبارك وتعالى قد علم اليوم الذي يقبض فيه نبيه صلى الله عليه وآله واليوم الذي يظلم فيه وصيه فسماه باسمهما،قال: قلت: فالثلثاء قال: خلقت يوم الثلثاء النار وذلك قوله تعالى "انطَلِقُوا إِلَى مَا كُنتُمْ بِهِ تُكَذِّبُونَ, انطَلِقُوا إِلَى ظِلٍّ ذِي ثَلاَثِ شُعَبٍ, لاَ ظَلِيلٍ وَلاَ يُغْنِي مِنْ اللَّهَبِ ."قال: قلت: فالاربعاء؟ قال: بنيت أربعاة أركان النار يوم الاربعاء، قال: قلت: فالخميس؟ قال: خلق الله الجنة يوم الخميس، قال: قلت: فالجمعة؟ قال: جمع الله عز وجل الخلق لولايتنا يوم الجمعة قال: قلت: فالسبت؟ قال: سبتت المللائكة لربها يوم السبت فوجدته لم يزل واحدا

7-62 (The compiler of the book narrated) that his father - may God be pleased with him - narrated that Muhammad ibn Yahya al-Attar quoted Sahl ibn Zyad al-Adamy, on the authority of Abul Hassan Amr ibn Sufyan al-Gorjany who linked it up through a chain of narrators to Aba Abdullah as-Sadiq (MGB), “As-Sadiq (MGB) asked one of his friends, ‘O so and so! Why you did you not go out today?’ He replied, ‘May I be your ransom! Because it is Sunday.’ The Imam (MGB) asked him, ‘So what? What is wrong with Sunday?’ The man said, ‘It has been narrated on the authority of God’s Prophet (MGB) to have said, ‘Beware of Sundays as they are as sharp as a sword!’ The Imam (MGB) said, ‘No that is not so. They have lied about the Prophet (MGB) having said that since Ahad which means Sunday is one of the Names of the Honorable the Exalted God.’ The man said, ‘May I be your ransom! What about Mondays?’ The Imam (MGB) said, ‘It has been named after those two.’ The man said, ‘But Monday was known as Monday before those two.’ Abu Abdullah as-Sadiq (MGB) told him, ‘Once you are told something try to understand it! Indeed the Blessed the Sublime God already knew the day on which He would appoint His Prophet (MGB), and the day on which the Prophet’s Trustee (MGB) would be oppressed. Thus, it was named after those two.’ The man said, ‘What about Tuesdays?’ The Imam (MGB) said, ‘God created Hell on a Tuesday as the Sublime God says, ‘(It will be said,) ‘Depart ye to that which ye used to reject as false! Depart ye to a Shadow (of smoke ascending) in three columns, (Which yields) no shade of coolness, and is of no use against the fierce Blaze.’”The man said, ‘What about Wednesdays?’ The Imam (MGB) said, ‘The four pillars of Fire were made on a Wednesday.’The man said, ‘What about Thursdays?’ The Imam (MGB) said, ‘God created Paradise on a Thursday.’The man said, ‘What about Fridays?’ The Imam (MGB) said, ‘The Honorable the Exalted God gathered the people together on Fridays to acknowledge our Mastery.’The man said, ‘What about Saturdays?’ The Imam (MGB) said, ‘It was on a Saturday that the angels attended to their Lord and realized that He has always been the One.’”

7-63 حدثنا أبوالحسن محمد بن عمرو بن علي بن عبد الله البصري بإيلاق قال: حدثنا أبوعبد الله محمد بن عبد الله بن أحمد بن جبلة الواعظ قال: حدثنا أبوالقاسم عبد الله بن أحمد بن عامر الطائي قال: حدثنا أبي قال: حدثنا علي بن موسى الرضا قال: حدثني موسى بن حعفر قال: حدثني جعفر بن محمد قال: حدثنا محمد بن علي قال: حدثني علي بن الحسين قال: حدثني الحسين بن علي عليه السلام قال: قال أمير المؤمنين عليه السلام: يوم السبت يوم مكرو وخديعة، ويوم الاحد يوم غرس وبناء، ويوم الاثنين يوم سفر وطلب، ويوم الثلثاء يوم حرب ودم، ويوم الاربعاء يوم شوم فيه يتطير الناس، ويوم الخميس يوم الدخول على الامراء وقضاء الحوائج، ويوم الجمعة يوم خطبة ونكاحقال مصنف هذا الكتاب رضي الله عنه: يوم اثنين يوم سفر إلى موضع الاستسقاء والطلب للمطر

7-63 Abul-Hassan Muhammad ibn Amr ibn Ali ibn Abdullah al-Basry in Ilaq narrated that the preacher Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Abdullah ibn Ahmad ibn Jabalat quoted Abul Qasim Abdullah ibn Ahmad ibn Amer al-Ta’ee, on the authority of his father, on the authority of Ali ibn Musa al-Ridha (MGB), on the authority of Musa ibn Ja’far al-Kadhim (MGB), on the authority of Ja’far ibn Muhammad as-Sadiq (MGB), on the authority of Muhammad ibn Ali al-Baqir (MGB), on the authority of Ali ibn al-Hussein as-Sajjad (MGB), on the authority of Al-Hussein ibn Ali (MGB) that the Commander of the Faithful Imam Ali (MGB) said, “Saturdays are for deceit and trickery. Sundays are for planting and building. Mondays are for war and bloodshed. Tuesdays are for traveling and making requests. Wednesdays are for pessimism and bad omen. Thursdays are for visiting the chiefs and Fridays are for proposing to marry and getting married.”The compiler of the book - may God be pleased with him - said, ‘Monday is the day for traveling to where you pray to God for rain.’

7-64 حدثنا أبي رضي الله عنه قال: حدثنا أحمد بن إدريس، عن محمد بن أحمد ابن يحيى بن عمران الاشعري، عن علي بن السندي، عن محمد بن عمرو بن سعيد، عن يونس بن يعقوب قال: سمعت أبا عبد الله عليه السلام يقول: احتجم رسول الله صلى لله عليه وآله يوم الاثنين وأعطى الحجام برا

7-64 (The compiler of the book narrated) that his father - may God be pleased with him - narrated that Ahmad ibn Idris quoted Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Yahya ibn Imran al-Ash’ari, on the authority of Ali ibn al-Sindy, on the authority of Muhammad ibn Amr ibn Sa’id, on the authority of Yunus ibn Yaqoob that he had heard Aba Abdullah as-Sadiq (MGB) say, “God’s Prophet (MGB) had blood-letting performed on Mondays and gave wheat to the person who performed the phlebotomy on him.”

7-65 حدثنا محمد بن الحسن رضي الله عنه قال: حدثنا محمد بن يحيى العطار قال: حدثني محمد بن أحمد، قال: حدثني الحسن بن الحسين اللؤلؤي، عن محمد بن إسماعيل، وأحمد بن الحسن الميثمي أو أحدهما، عن أبراهيم بن مهزم، عم ذكره عن أبي عبد الله عليه السلام قال: كان رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله يحتجم يوم الاثنين بعد العصر

7-65 Muhammad ibn al-Hassan - may God be pleased with him - narrated that Muhammad ibn Yahya al-Attar quoted Muhammad ibn Ahmad, on the authority of Al-Hassan ibn al-Hussein al-Lu’lu’ee, on the authority of either or both Muhammad ibn Isma’il and Ahmad ibn al-Hassan al-Maysami, on the authority of Ibrahim ibn Mihzam that someone had narrated that Aba Abdullah as-Sadiq (MGB) said, “God’s Prophet (MGB) had blood-letting done on Monday afternoons.”

7-66 حدثنا أبي رضي الله عنه قال: حدثنا سعد بن عبد الله قال: حدثني يعقوب بن يزيد، ومحمد بن الحسين بن أبي الخطاب، عن حماد بن عيسى، عمن ذكره عن أبي عبد الله عليه السلام قال: الحجامة يوم الاثنين من آخر النهار تسل الداء سلا من البدن

7-66 (The compiler of the book narrated) that his father - may God be pleased with him - narrated that Sa’ed ibn Abdullah quoted on the authority of Yaqoob ibn Yazid and Muhammad ibn al-Hussein ibn Abil-Khat’tab, on the authority of Hammad ibn Isa, on the authority of someone who had narrated that Aba Abdullah as-Sadiq (MGB) said, “It was the Prophet (MGB)’s custom was to have blood-letting done for him on Monday afternoons. He (MGB) used to say, ‘Having phlebotomy done on Monday afternoons would immediately relieves one’s pains.’”

7-67 حدثنا محمدبن الحسن رضي الله عنه قال: حدثنا محمد بن يحيى العطار قال: حدثنا محمد بن أحمد بن يحيى بن عمران الاشعري، عن العباس بن معروف، عن محمد بن أبي عمير، عن أبى حمزة، عن عقبة بن بشير الازدي قال: جئت إلى أبي جعفر عليه السلام يوم الاثنين فقال: كل، فقلت: إنى صائم فقال: وكيف صمت؟ قال: قلت: لان رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله ولد فيه، فقال: أما ماولد فيه فلا تعلمون، وأما ما قبض فيه فنعم ثم قال: فلاتصم ولا تسافر فيه

7-67 Muhammad ibn al-Hassan - may God be pleased with him - narrated that Muhammad ibn Yahya al-Attar quoted Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Yahya ibn Imran al-Ash’ari, on the authority of Al-Abbas ibn Ma’ruf, on the authority of Muhammad ibn Abi Umayr, on the authority of Abi Hamzih, on the authority of Aqabah ibn Bashir al-Azodi, “I went to see Abi Ja’far al-Baqir (MGB) on a Monday. He (MGB) said, ‘Have something to eat.’ I replied, ‘I am fasting.’ The Imam (MGB) said, ‘Why did you fast on this day?’ I said, ‘Because the Prophet (MGB) was born on this day.’ He (MGB) said, ‘You do not know on which day the Prophet (MGB) was born on. That is the day on which the Prophet (MGB) perished. Therefore, you should neither travel nor fast on that day.’”

7-68 حدثنا أبي رضي الله عنه قال: حدثنا سعد بن عبد الله قال: حدثني أحمد ابن محمد بن عيسى، عن موسى بن القاسم البجلي، عن علي بن جعفر قال: جاء رجل إلى أخي موسى بن جعفر عليهما السلام فقال له: جعلت فداك إني اريد الخروج فادع لى فقال: ومتى تخرج؟ قال: يوم الاثنين؟ فقال له: ولم تخرج يوم الاثنين؟ قال: أطلب فيه البركة لان رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله ولد يوم الاثنين، فقال: كذبوا ولد رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله يوم الجمعة، وما من يوم أعظم شوما من يوم الاثنين، يوم مات فيه رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله وانقطع فيه وحي السماء، وظلمنا فيه حقنا، ألا أدلك على يوم سهل لين ألان الله لداود عليه السلام فيه الحديد؟ فقال الرجل: بلى جعلت فداك، فقال: اخرج يوم الثلثاء

7-68 (The compiler of the book narrated) that his father - may God be pleased with him - narrated that Sa’ed ibn Abdullah quoted Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Isa, on the authority of Musa ibn al-Qasim al-Bajaly, on the authority of Ali ibn Ja’far (as): “A man had gone to see my brother Musa ibn Ja’far al-Kadhim (as) and said, ‘May I be your ransom! I have planned to go on a trip. Please pray for me.’ The Imam (as) said, ‘On which day are you planning to go?’ The man said, ‘On Monday.’ The Imam (as) said, ‘Why do you go on Monday?’ The man said, ‘I go on that day to seek blessings since that is the Prophet’s birthday.’ The Imam (as) said, ‘No, they lie. The Prophet’s (sw) birthday is on a Friday. No day is more wicked than Monday. It was on that day the Prophet (sw) perished and heavenly revelations ceased to descend. It was on that day that they usurped our rights by force. Do you want me to guide you to an easy day on which God softened iron for David (as)?’ The man said, ‘May I be your ransom! Yes.’ The Imam (as) said, ‘Go on a Tuesday.’”

Al-Khiṣāl

Book 8, Chapter 44