Ahmad b. al-Hasan al-Qattan narrated to us. He said: al-`Abbas b. al-Fadl al-Muqri’ narrated to us. He said: Abu’l Hasan `Ali b. al-Furat al-Isfahani narrated to us. He said: Ahmad b. Muhammad al-Basri narrated to us. He said: Jundal b. Waliq narrated to us. He said: `Ali b. Hammad narrated to us from Sa`id from Ibn `Abbas. He passed by a gathering of Quraysh that was insulting `Ali b. Abi Talib , so he said to his guide: What are these people saying? He said: They are insulting `Ali. He said: Bring me closer to them. When he reached them, he said: Did you insult Allah? They said: May Allah be glorified! Whoever insults Allah has associated partners with Allah. He said: Then, did you insult the Messenger of Allah (s)? They said: Whoever insults the Messenger of Allah has disbelieved. He said: Then, did you insult `Ali b. Abi Talib ? They said: This is what happened. He said: I testify by Allah and I testify for Allah that I heard the Messenger of Allah (s) say: “Whoever insults `Ali has insulted me, and whoever insults me has insulted Allah.” Then, he went. So, he said to his guide: Did they say anything when I said what I said to them? He said: They did not say anything. He said: Did you see [the expressions on] their faces? He said: They looked at you with reddened eyes, as a goat looks to the knife of a butcher. He said: Explain further for me, may your father be your sacrifice. He said: The eyes squinted and the brows furrowed, the ears lowered in humiliation – it was the look of a servile man to a glorious and dominant man. He said: Explain further for me, may your father be your sacrifice. He said: I have nothing except this. He said: Rather, to me, their living ones are a humiliation for their dead ones, and their dead ones are a shame for the ancients.

My father narrated to us. He said: Sa`d b. `Abdullah narrated to us from Ahmad b. Muhammad b. `Isa from `Ali b. al-Hakam from Muthanna al-Hannat from Abi Basir from al-Sadiq Ja`far b. Muhammad . He said: I heard him say: Whoever prays four units with two hundred recitations of qul huwallahu ahad – fifty times per unit – there will not remain a sin between him and Allah except that it has been forgiven for him.

Muhammad b. al-Hasan b. Ahmad b. al-Walid narrated to us. He said: Muhammad b. al-Hasan al-Saffar narrated to us from Ibrahim b. Hashim from Muhammad b. Abi Umayr from Zayd al-Shahham from al-Sadiq Ja`far b. Muhammad . He said: A worshiper does not say [the following] seven times per day -- I ask Allah for Paradise, and I seek refuge in Allah from the Fire -- except that the Fire says: "O Lord! Give him refuge from me."

Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Yahya al-`Attar narrated to us. He said: Sa`d b. `Abdullah narrated to us from Ya`qub b. Yazid from Muhammad b. Abi `Umayr from Mu`awiya b. Wahb from Mu`adh b. Muslim from al-Sadiq Ja`far b. Muhammad . He said: Be patient with those who oppose blessing, for there is no better way to deal with those who disobey Allah than to obey Allah.

Al-Husayn b. Ahmad b. Idris narrated to us. He said: My father narrated to us from Muhammad b. al-Husayn b. Abi'l Khattab from Muhammad b. Abi `Umayr from Ja`far al-Azdi from `Amr b. Abi'l Miqdam. He said: I heard Aba Ja`far al-Baqir say: Whoever recites Ayat al-Kursi once, Allah repels one thousand hateful things from this world and one thousand hateful things of the Hereafter from him. The least of the hateful things from this world would be poverty, and the least of the hateful things of the next world would be the punishment of the grave.

Ali b. al-Husayn b. Shadhuwayh al-Mu'addab narrated to us. He said: Muhammad b. `Abdullah b. Ja`far b. Jami` al-Himyari narrated to us. He said: Ahmad b. Muhammad narrated to us from his father from Muhammad b. Abi `Umayr from Sayf b. `Umayra from Mudrik b. al-Hazhar. He said: al-Sadiq Ja`far b. Muhammad said: O Mudrik! May Allah have mercy on a servant who causes the people to love us, narrating what they would recognize, and leaving what they would deny.

My father narrated to us. He said: `Ali b. Ibrahim b. Hashim narrated to me from his father from Muhammad b. Abi `Umayr from Hisham b. Salim from al-Sadiq Ja`far b. Muhammad . He said: One day, Dawud went to recite the Psalms. Whenever he would recite the Psalms, there would not remain a mountain, a stone, a bird, nor a creature except that it would repeat after him. So, he did not stop walking until he reached a mountain. Upon that mountain was a cloistered prophet called Hizqil. When he heard the sound of the mountains and the voices of the creatures and the birds, he knew that it was Dawud . So, Dawud said: O Hizqil! Do you permit me to climb up to you? He said: No. So, Dawud wept. So, Allah revealed to him: "O Hizqil! Do not humiliate Dawud and ask Me for My forgiveness." So, Hizqil stood, took the hand of Dawud, and helped him up to him. So, Dawud said: O Hizqil! Have you ever been tempted to sin? He said: No. He said: Have you ever been alarmed by your state of worshiping Allah? He said: No. He said: Have you went into this world and wanted to take from its lustful and pleasurable things? He said: Of course -- perhaps it came to my heart. He said: What do you do when that happens? He said: I go to this cave and I contemplate over it. He said: So, Dawud went to that cave and came across an iron bed with a decomposed skull and withering bones atop it. He came across an iron tablet with writing on it. Dawud read it and it said: "I am Arwa Shalam. I ruled for one thousand years, I built one thousand cities, and I had sex with one thousand virgins. Yet, in the end, dust became my bed, rocks became my masters, and worms and snakes became my neighbours. To whoever sees me: do not be deceived by this world."

Ahmad b. Ziyad narrated to us. He said: `Ali b. Ibrahim narrated to us from his father. He said: Abu Ahmad Muhammad b. Ziyad al-Azdi narrated to us from Aban b. `Uthman and others from al-Sadiq Ja`far b. Muhammad . He said: Whoever completes his fast with a good saying or a good action, Allah will accept his fast. So, it was said to him: O son of the Messenger of Allah! What is the good saying? He said: The testimony that there is no god but Allah; and the good action is giving out [zakat] al-Fitra.

Muhammad b. Ibrahim b. Ishaq narrated to us. He said: Ahmad b. Muhammad al-Hamadani informed me. He said: Al-Mundhir b. Muhammad informed us. He said: Isma`il b. `Abdullah al-Kufi narrated to us from his father from `Abdullah b. al-Fadl al-Hashimi from al-Sadiq Ja`far b. Muhammad from his father from his grandfather . He said: Amir al-Mu’minin `Ali b. Abi Talib gave a sermon to the people on the Day of Fitr, saying: O people! This day of yours is the day when the righteous are rewarded and when the wrongdoers lose. This day of yours is a day most resembling the day of your resurrection. So, remember how your exit from your houses to your places of prayer is like your exit from your bodies to your Lord. Remember how your standing in your places of prayer is like your standing before your Lord. Remember how your return to your houses is like your return to your houses in Paradise or the Fire. Know, O worshipers of Allah, that an angel calls to the fasting men and women on the last day of the month of Ramadan, saying: “Be glad, worshipers of Allah, for your past sins have been forgiven. So, look to how you resume.”

Al-Sadiq Ja`far b. Muhammad said to some of his companions: On the eve of al-Fitr, pray the three units of Maghrib, then prostrate and say the following in your prostration: “O Everlasting, O Powerful, O Selector and Supporter of Muhammad! Bless Muhammad and the Family of Muhammad and forgive me of every sin that I have committed and forgotten that is with You in the Manifest Book (Ya thal tawl, ya thal hawl, ya mustafi Muhammad wa nasirih, salli `ala Muhammad wa aali Muhammad, waghfir li kulli dhanbin adhnabtahu wa nasaytahu wa huwa `indika fii kitabin mubin).” Then say the following one hundred times: “I repent to Allah” (atubu illallah), and do takbir after al-Maghrib, the Final `Isha’, and morning prayer, and the Eid prayer, just as you do takbir in the days of Tashriq; saying: “Allah is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest, there is no god but Allah. Allah is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest, and to Allah is the Praise. Allah is the Greatest over what He has guided us to, and praise be to Allah over what He has made us face (Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar, la ilaha illallah, Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar, wa lillahil hamd. Allahu akbar `ala ma hadana, walhamdulillah `ala ma ablana).” But, do not say: “Provide us with the cattle of livestock (warzuqna min bahimat al-an`am)”, for that is only for the days of Tashriq.