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

7-84 حدثنا أبي رضي الله عنه قال: حدثنا سعد بن عبد الله قال: حدثني محمد ابن عيسى بن عبيد، عن زكريا المؤمن، عن محمد بن رباح القلاء قال:رأيت أبا إبراهيم عليه السلام يحتجم يوم الجمعة فقلت: جعلت فداك تحتجم يوم الجمعة قال: أقرأ آية الكرسي. فإذا هاج بك الدم ليلا كان أو نهارا فاقرأ آية الكرسي واحتجم

7-84 (The compiler of the book narrated) that his father - may God be pleased with him - narrated that Sa’ed ibn Abdullah quoted Muhammad ibn Isa ibn Ubayd, on the authority of Zakaria al-Mumin, on the authority of Muhammad ibn Ribah al-Qula, “I saw that Aba Ibrahim Al-Kadhim (MGB) had phlebotomy done on a Friday. I asked, ‘May I be your ransom! Are you having phlebotomy done on a Friday?’ He (MGB) replied, ‘I recite the verse of the Throne (Ayat al-Kursi) . You should have phlebotomy done whenever you have high blood pressure and recite the verse of the Throne.’”

7-85 حدثنا محمد بن أحمد البغدادي الوراق قال: حدثنا علي بن محمد مولى الرشيد قال: حدثنا دارم بن قبيصة قال: حدثنا علي بن موسى الرضا قال: حدثني موسى بن جعفر، عن أبيه جعفر بن محمد، عن أبيه محمدبن علي، عن أبيه علي بن الحسين، عن أبيه الحسين بن علي، عن أبيه علي بن أبي طالب عليهم السلام قال: قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله: تقوم الساعة يوم الجمعة بين صلاة الظهر والعصر

7-85 Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Baghdady al-Var’raq narrated that Ali ibn Muhammad - the servant of Ar-Rashid - quoted Darim ibn Qabaysat narrated that Ali ibn Musa al-Ridha (MGB) quoted on the authority of his father Musa ibn Ja’far al-Kadhim (MGB), on the authority of his father Ja’far ibn Muhammad (MGB), on the authority of his father Muhammad ibn Ali (MGB), on the authority of his father Ali ibn al-Hussein (MGB), on the authority of his father Al-Hussein ibn Ali (MGB), on the authority of his father Ali ibn Abi Talib (MGB), that the Prophet (MGB) said, “The Resurrection Day shall come between the times of the noon and afternoon prayers on a Friday.”

7-86 وعن السكوني، عن جعفر بن محمد، عن أبيه، عن آبائه، عن علي عليهم السلام قال: قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله: اطرفوا أهاليكم في كل جمعة بشيء من الفاكهة واللحم حتى يفرحوا بالجمعة وكان النبي صلى الله عليه وآله إذا خرج في الصيف من بيت خرج يوم الخميس وإذا أراد أن يدخل البيت في الشتاء من البرد دخل يوم الجمعة، وقد روي أنه كان دخوله وخروجه يوم الجمعة

7-86 And Al-Sakoony narrated that Ja’far ibn Muhammad as-Sadiq (MGB) quoted his father (MGB), on the authority of his forefathers (MGB), on the authority of Ali (MGB) that God’s Prophet (MGB) said, “You should take some meat and fruits to your family on Fridays so that they are happy. The Prophet (MGB) used to leave his room to rest in the summer on Thursdays. He (MGB) used to return to the room on Friday nights due to the cold in the winter. It has also been narrated that he (MGB) always left the room and returned to it on Fridays.”

7-87 حدثنا أبي رضي الله عنه قال: حدثنا سعد بن عبد الله، عن محمد بن الحسين ابن أبي الخطاب، عن صالح بن عقبة، عن أبي كهمس قال: قلت لابي عبد الله عليه السلام: علمني دعاء أستنرل به الرزق فقال لي: خذ من شاربك وأظفارك وليكن ذلك في يوم الجمعة

7-87 (The compiler of the book narrated) that his father - may God be pleased with him - narrated that Sa’ed ibn Abdullah quoted Muhammad ibn al-Hussein ibn Abil Khattab, on the authority of Salih ibn Aqabah, on the authority of Abi Kahmas, “I asked Aba Abdullah as-Sadiq (MGB), ‘Please teach me some supplications which would expedite the provision of one’s sustenance.’ The Imam (MGB) told me, ‘Shave your moustache and cut your nails. Do this on Fridays.’”

7-88 حدثنا أبي رضي الله عنه قال: حدثنا محمد بن يحيى العطار، عن محمد بن أحمد قال: حدثنا محمدبن حسان الرازي، عن أبي محمد الرازي، عن الحسين بن يزيد، عن السكوني عن أبي عبد الله، عن أبيه عليهما السلام قال: قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله: من قلم أظفاره يوم الجمعة أخرج الله من أنامله الداء وأدخل فيه الداوء. وروي أنه لا يصيبه جنون والجذام ولا برص

7-88 (The compiler of the book narrated) that his father - may God be pleased with him - narrated that Muhammad ibn Yahya al-Attar quoted Muhammad ibn Ahmad, on the authority of Muhammad ibn Hisan al-Razi, on the authority of Abi Muhammad al-Razi, on the authority of Al-Hussein ibn Yazid, on the authority of Al-Sakoony, on the authority of Aba Abdullah as-Sadiq (MGB), on the authority of his father (MGB) that God’s Prophet (MGB) said, “God would take away pain from the hands of whoever cuts his nails on Fridays and would heal them.” It has also been narrated that he would be immune from insanity, leprosy and vitiligo .

7-89 حدثنا أبي رضي الله عنه قال: حدثنا محمد بن يحيى العطار، عن محمد بن أحمد بن يحيى بن عمران الاشعري قال: حدثنا أحمد بن محمد بن خالد، عن أبيه، عن بكر بن صالح، عن الجعفري قال: سمعت أبا الحسن عليه السلام يقول: قلموا أظفاركم يوم الثلثاء واستحموا يوم الاربعاء واصيبوا من الحجام حاجتكم يوم الخميس وتطيبوا بأطيب طيبكم يوم الجمعة

7-89 (The compiler of the book narrated) that his father - 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 Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Khalid, on the authority of his father, on the authority of Bakr ibn Salih, on the authority of Al-Ja’fari that he had heard Abal-Hassan Al-Kadhim (MGB) say, “Cut your nails off on Tuesdays, go to the bath on Wednesdays and have phlebotomy done on Thursdays if you wish. Put on your best perfume on Fridays.”

7-90 حدثنا أبي رضي الله عنه قال: حدثنا محمد بن يحيى العطار، عن محمد ابن أحمد، عن معاوية بن حكيم، عن معمر بن خلاد، عن أبي الحسن الرضا عليه السلام قال: لا يبغي للرجل أن يدع الطيب في كل يوم، فإن لم يقدر عليه فيوم ويوم لا، فان لم يقدر ففي كل جمعة، ولا يدع ذلك

7-90 (The compiler of the book narrated) that his father - may God be pleased with him - narrated that Muhammad ibn Yahya al-Attar quoted Muhammad ibn Ahmad, on the authority of Muawiyah ibn Hakim, on the authority of Mu’amir ibn Khilad that Abil Hassan al-Ridha (MGB) said, “It is not good for man to abandon putting on perfume on himself. He should at least put on perfume once every other day if he can. Or at least he should put on perfume every Friday if he can. He should not abandon this.”

7-91 حدثنا أبي رضي الله عنه قال: حدثنا محمد بن يحيى العطار، عن محمد بن أحمد، عن أبي جعفر أحمد بن أبي عبد الله قال: حدثنا محمد بن موسى بن الفرات، عن علي بن مطر، عن السكن الخزاز قال: سمعت أبا عبد الله عليه السلام يقول:لله حق على كل محتلم في كل جمعة: أخذ شاربه وأظفاره، ومس شيء من الطيب

7-91 (The compiler of the book narrated) that his father - may God be pleased with him - narrated that Muhammad ibn Yahya al-Attar quoted Muhammad ibn Ahmad, on the authority of Abi Ja’far Ahmad ibn Aba Abdullah, on the authority of Muhammad ibn Musa ibn al-Forat, on the authority of Ali ibn Matar, on the authority of Al-Sokn al-Khazzaz that he had heard Aba Abdullah as-Sadiq (MGB) say, “It is the right of God incumbent upon every mature man to cut off his nails, shave his moustache and put on perfume every Friday.”

7-92 حدثنا أبوعلي الحسن بن علي بن محمد بن علي بن عمرو العطار القزويني ببلخ قال: حدثنا أبومصعب محمد بن أحمد بن مصعب بن القاسم السلمي بترمد قال: حدثنا أبومحمد أحمد بن محمد بن إسحاق بن هارون الآملي بآمل قال: حدثنا أحمد بن محمد بن غالب البصري الزاهد ببغداد قال: حدثنا دينار مولى أنس بن مالك، عن أنس، عن النبي صلى الله عليه وآله قال: إن ليلة الجمعة ويوم الجمعة أربع وعشرون ساعة لله عز وجل في كل ساعة ستمائة ألق عتيق من النار

7-92 Abu Ali al-Hassan ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Amr al-Attar al-Qazvini in Balkh narrated that Abu Mus’ab Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Mus’ab ibn al-Qasim al-Salmy at Tramad quoted Abu Muhammad Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn Harun al-Amoli in Amol, on the authority of Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Qalib al-Basry in Baghdad, on the authority of Dinar - the servant of Anas ibn Malik , on the authority of Anas that the Prophet (MGB) said, “Friday day and night is twenty-four hours. The Honorable the Exalted God frees six-hundred thousand sinners from the Fire of Hell each hour on Friday.”

7-93 حدثنا أحمدبن زياد الهمداني رضي الله عنه قال: حدثناعلي بن إبراهيم ابن هاشم، عن أبيه، عن محمد بن أبي عمير، وعلى بن الحكم جميعا، عن هشام بن الحكم عن أبي عبد الله عليه السلام في الرجل يريد أن يعمل شيئا من الخير مثل الصدقة والصوم ونحو هذا، قال: يستحب أن يكون ذلك يوم الجمعة فإن العمل يوم الجمعة يضاعف

7-93 Ahmad ibn Zyad al-Hamedany - may God be pleased with him - narrated that Ali ibn Ibrahim ibn Hashim quoted his father, on the authority of Muhammad ibn Abi Umayr and Ali ibn al-Hikam, on the authority of Hisham ibn al-Hakam that Aba Abdullah as-Sadiq (MGB) said, “In you want to do some good deed such as giving charity, fasting or a similar deed it is best to do it on a Friday since then it would be rewarded twice.”

7-94 حدثنا أحمد بن زياد بن جعفر الهمداني رضي الله عنه قال: حدثني علي بن ابراهيم، عن أبيه، عن ابن أبي عمير، عن إبراهيم بن أبي البلاد، عمن رواه، عن أبي عبد الله عليه السلام قال: من أنشد بيت شعر يوم الجمعة فهو حظه من ذلك اليوم، وقال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله: إذا رأيتم الشيخ يحدث يوم الجمعة بأحاديث الجاهلية فارموا رأسه [ولو] بالحصي

7-94 Ahmad ibn Zyad ibn Ja’far al-Hamedany - may God be pleased with him - narrated that Ali ibn Ibrahim quoted on the authority of his father, on the authority of Ibn Abi Umayr, on the authority of Ibrahim ibn Abil Balad, who quoted that someone quoted on the authority of Aba Abdullah as-Sadiq (MGB), “Whoever recites a poem on Friday will receive the same as reward for that day. God’s Prophet (MGB) said, ‘If you see a Sheikh narrate a tradition of the Age of Ignorance on Friday you should hit him on the head even if it be with just a small pebble.’”

7-95 حدثنا أبي رضي الله عنه قال: حدثنا سعدبن عبد الله، عن أيوب بن نوح، عن محمد بن أبي عمير، عن عبد الله بن سنان، عن أبي عبد الله عليه السلام قال: من قال في آخر سجدة من النافلة بعد المغرب ليلة الجمعة وإن قاله كـل ليلـة فهـوأفضل: "اللهم إني أسالك بوجهك الكريم واسمك العظيم أن تصلي على محمد وآل محمد وأن تغفر لي ذنبي العظيم" سبع مرات انصرف وقد غفرله. قال: وقال أبوعبد الله عليه السلام: إذا كانت عشية الخميس وليلة الجمعة نزلت ملائكة من السماء معها أقلام الذهب وصحف الفضة لا يكتبون عشية الخميس وليلة الجمعة ويوم الجمعة إلى أن تغيب الشمس إلا الصلاة على النبي صلى الله عليه وآله، ويكره السفر والسعي في الحوائج يوم الجمعة. يكره من أجل الصلاة فأما بعد الصلاة فجائز يتبرك به

7-95 (The compiler of the book narrated) that his father - may God be pleased with him - narrated that Sa’ed ibn Abdullah quoted Ayoob ibn Nooh, on the authority of Muhammad ibn Abi Umayr, on the authority of Abdullah ibn Sin’an, on the authority of Aba Abdullah as-Sadiq (MGB), “Whoever says the following supplications at the end of the prostration of the recommendable (Nafila) prayer after the eve of Friday night, ‘O my Lord! I beseech you by your Noble Face and Grand Name that you send blessingsupon Muhammad and his household and that you forgive my major sins’ for seven times would be forgiven by God just when he lifts his head off from the position of prostration.’”Aba Abdullah as-Sadiq (MGB) also said, “Angels who carry golden pens and silver tablets descend to the Earth on Thursday nights and Fridays. They only record the reward of sending blessings upon Muhammad and his household on Thursday nights and Fridays. It is not recommendable to go after your needs on Fridays before the Friday prayer, but it is fine to do so afterwards.”

7-96 حدثنا محمد بن الحسن بن أحمد بن الوليد رضي الله عنه قال: حدثنا محمد ابن الحسن الصفار، عن يعقوب بن يزيد، عن محمد بن أبي عمير، عن أبي أيوب إبراهيم ان عثمان الخزاز أنه قال: سألت أبا عبد الله عن قول الله عز وجل: "فَإِذَا قُضِيَتِ الصَّلَاةُ فَانتَشِرُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ وَابْتَغُوا مِن فَضْلِ اللَّهِ" قال: الصلاة يوم الجمعة والانتشار يوم السبت، وقال أبوعبد الله عليه السلام:اف للرجل المسلم أن لا يفرغ نفسه في الاسبوع يوم الجمعة لامر دينه فيسأل عنه

7-96 Muhammad ibn al-Hassan ibn Ahmad ibn al-Walid - may God be pleased with him - narrated that Muhammad ibn al-Hassan al-Saffar quoted on the authority of Yaqoob ibn Yazid, on the authority of Muhammad ibn Abi Umayr, on the authority of Abi Ayoob Ibrahim, “Uthman al-Khazzaz asked Aba Abdullah as-Sadiq (MGB) about the words of God the Honorable the Exalted, ‘And when the prayer is finished, then may ye disperse through the land, and seek of the Bounty of God.’ The Imam (MGB) said, ‘What is meant is to pray on Fridays and go after work on Saturdays.’ He (MGB) added, ‘Shame on a Muslim who doesn’t allocate Fridays for his religious affairs.’”

Al-Khiṣāl

Book 8, Chapter 48