Abu’l Hasan `Ali b. al-Husayn b. Shaqir b. Ya`qub b. al-Harith b. Ibrahim al-Hamadani narrated to us in his house in Kufa. He said: Abu `Abdillah Ja`far b. Ahmad b. Yusuf al-Azdi narrated to us. He said: `Ali b. Bazraj al-Hannat narrated to us. He said: `Amr b. Alyasa` narrated to us from `Abdullah b. Alyasa` from `Abdullah b. Sinan from Abi `Abdillah al-Sadiq Ja`far b. Muhammad . He said: It was said to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ: Sa`d b. Mu`adh has died. So, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ stood, and his companions stood with him. While he was standing at the door, he commanded that Sa`d was to be washed. When he was embalmed, shrouded, and carried on his coffin, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ followed him without sandals and without a cloak. He would take to the right of the coffin once and to the left of the coffin once until he ended up at the grave. So, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ entered the grave and settled it, saying: Give me stones, and give me fresh soil to fill in the gaps.

When he finished preparing his grave, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: Surely, I know that he will be afflicted, and that affliction will reach him, but Allah loves a servant that does an act that He proscribed. When he evened the dust on him, the mother of Sa`d said: O Sa`d! Congratulations to you on Paradise. So, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: O mother of Sa`d! Stop, and do not make assumptions for your Lord, for Sa`d has been afflicted with constriction [in his grave]. He said: So, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ returned, and the people returned. So, they said to him: O Messenger of Allah! We have seen you do for Sa`d that which we have not seen you do for anyone else. You followed his funeral without sandals and without a cloak. So, he ﷺ said: The angels were without their cloaks and without their sandals, so I did the same. They said: You took to the right of the coffin once and to the left of the coffin once. He said: My hand was in the hand of Gabriel , and I went where he took me. They said: You commanded that he be washed, and you offered his funeral prayer, and placed him in his grave, then you said: “Sa`d has been afflicted with constriction.” So, he ﷺ said: Yes. He had poor character when dealing with his family.

Muhammad b. Ahmad b. `Ali b. Asad al-Asadi narrated to us in Ray in Rajab in 347 AH. He said: `Abdullah b. Sulayman and `Abdullah b. Muhammad al-Wahbi and Ahmad b. `Umayr and Muhammad b. Abi Ayyub narrated to us. They said: `Abdullah b. Hani’ b. `Abd al-Rahman narrated to us. He said: My father narrated to us from his uncle Ibrahim from Umm al-Darda’ from Abi’l Darda’. He said: The Messenger of Allah (s) said: Whoever awakes with a healthy body, peace of mind, and enough provision for his day, it is as though he has been given the goodness of this world. O Ibn Khash`am! It suffices to have that which stops your hunger and that which covers your nakedness. If you have a house, then that is even better. If you have a beast to ride, then bravo; if not, then bread and running water. There is nothing beyond that except that you will be reckoned or punished for it.

Muhammad b. `Ali b. al-Fadl al-Kufi narrated to us in the Mosque of Amir al-Mu'minin in Kufa. He said: Muhammad b. Ja`far known as Ibn Tibyan narrated to us. He said: Muhammad b. al-Qasim al-Nahmi narrated to us. He said: Muhammad b. `Abd al-Wahhab narrated to us. He said: Ibrahim b. Muhammad al-Thaqafi narrated to us. He said: Tawba b. al-Khalil narrated to us. He said: I heard Muhammad b. al-Hasan say: Harun b. Kharija narrated to us. He said: Al-Sadiq Ja`far b. Muhammad said to me: How far is your house from the Mosque of Kufa? So, I informed him. So, he said: There has not been an Angel of Proximity nor a commissioned prophet nor a righteous servant that entered Kufa except that he prayed in it. Surely, the Messenger of Allah (s) passed by it on his Night Journey. He sought the angel’s permission, then prayed two units there. An obligatory prayer in it is worth one thousand prayers. A voluntary prayer in it is worth five hundred prayers. Sitting in it without [even] reciting the Quran is [considered] worship. So, go to it, even if you must crawl.

Muhammad b. Ahmad b. Ibrahim al-Laythi narrated to us. He said: `Abdullah b. Muhammad b. `Abd al-`Aziz al-Baghawi narrated to us. He said: `Ali b. al-Ja`d narrated to us. He said: Shu`ba informed us. He said: Al-Hakam narrated to us. He said: I heard Ibn Abi Layla say: I met Ka`b b. `Ajra, so he said: Shall I not gift something to you? Surely, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ came to us, so we said: O Messenger of Allah! You have taught us how to send peace (salaam) to you, but how do we send blessings to you? He said: Say: “O Allah! Bless Muhammad, just as you blessed Ibrahim. Surely, You are Majestic and Glorious. Send benedictions upon the Family of Muhammad, just as You sent benedictions upon the Family of Ibrahim. Surely, You are Majestic and Glorious.

(Allahumma salli `ala Muhammad kama sallayta `ala Ibrahim, innaka hamidun majid. Wa barik `ala aali Muhammad kama barakta `ala aali Ibrahim, innaka hamidun majid)”

Al-Hasan b. `Abdullah b. Sa`id b. al-Hasan b. Isma`il b. Hakim al-`Askari narrated to us. He said: `Abdullah b. Muhammad b. `Abd al-Karim narrated to us. He said: Muhammad b. `Abd al-Rahman al-Barqi narrated to us. He said: `Amr b. Abi Salama narrated to us. He said: I read it with Abi Umar al-Sanani from al-`Ala' b. `Abd al-Rahman from his father from Abi Hurayra. The Messenger of Allah (s) said: There may be a beggar who is disheveled, dusty, and wearing two tattered garments who is refused at the doors, but [he may be so pious that] if he were to ask something of Allah, He would fulfill it for him.

Al-Hasan b. `Abdullah b. Sa`id narrated to us. He said: Muhammad b. Ahmad b. Hamdan b. al-Mughira al-Qushayri narrated to us. He said: Abu'l Harish Ahmad b. `Isa al-Kilabi narrated to us. He said: Musa b. Isma`il b. Musa b. Ja`far b. Muhammad b. `Ali b. al-Husayn b. `Ali b. Abi Talib narrated to us in in 250 AH. He said: My father narrated to me from his father from his grandfather Ja`far b. Muhammad from his father from his forefathers from `Ali b. Abi Talib regarding the saying of Allah, “Can the reward for good be other than good?” (55:60) He said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (s) say: What can the reward of one who has been blessed with monotheism be other than Paradise?

Ja`far b. al-Husayn narrated to us. He said: Muhammad b. Ja`far b. Batta narrated to us. He said: Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Khalid narrated to us from his father from Muhammad b. Sinan from `Abdullah b. Muskan from Abi `Abdillah al-Sadiq . He said: The most deserving of people to hope that the people become rich are the poor, because if the people become rich, then they will become needless of their wealth [and they would give it out more freely]. The most deserving of people to hope that the people become rectified are those with flaws, because if they become rectified, they will stop following up on their flaws. The most deserving of people to hope that the people become forbearing are the fools who need to be pardoned for their foolishness. However, the poor hope for the people to become poor, those with flaws hope that the people become flawed, and the fools hope that the people become foolish; even though poverty brings about stinginess, flaws cause people to find flaws in others, and foolishness brings about the sins.

Ahmad b. Harun al-Fami narrated to us. He said: Muhammad b. Ja`far b. Batta narrated to us. He said: Ahmad b. Ishaq b. Sa`id narrated to us from Bakr b. Muhammad from al-Sadiq Ja`far b. Muhammad from his father from his forefathers . He said: Amir al-Mu'minin said: People on Friday are of three states: (1) a man who witnesses it attentively and silently before the Imam – that will be a forgiveness of his sins from Friday until the next Friday, plus three days, because of the saying of Allah, “Whoever comes with a good deed will have ten like it.” (6:160) (2) A man who witnesses it in commotion, noise, and annoyance – so that will be his omen. (3) A man who witnesses it, and the Imam delivers the sermon, so he rises to pray, but he makes a mistake in the sunna – so that will be up to the will of Allah, whether He grants it or forbids it.

Muhammad b. Bukran al-Niqash narrated to us. He said: Ahmad b. Muhammad al-Hamadani the servant of Bani Hashim narrated to us. He said: `Ubayd b. Hamdun al-Ru'asi narrated to me. He said: Husayn b. Nasr narrated to us from his father from `Amr b. Shimr from Jabir from Abi Ja`far al-Baqir from `Ali b. al-Husayn from al-Husayn b. `Ali from `Ali b. Abi Talib . He said: I complained to the Messenger of Allah (s) about a debt that I had, so he said: O `Ali! Say: “O Allah! Enrich me with Your lawful things over Your unlawful things, and with preferring You over others (Allahumma aghnini bi halalik `an haramik, wa bi fadlik `amman sawak)”. Even if your debt were the size of Sabir, Allah would settle it. Sabir is a mountain in Yemen, and there is no mountain greater [in size] than it.

Muhammad b. Ahmad b. Ibrahim al-Laythi narrated to us. He said: Ahmad b. Muhammad al-Hamadani narrated to us. He said: Ya`qub b. Yusuf b. Ziyad narrated to us. He said: Ahmad b. Hammad narrated to us from `Amr b. Shimr from Jabir from Abi Ja`far al-Baqir from `Ali b. al-Husayn from al-Husayn b. `Ali from `Ali b. Abi Talib . He said: The Messenger of Allah (s) said: I am the City of Wisdom – and that is Paradise – and you, `Ali, are its Gate. So, how can a guided one be guided to Paradise without being guided to it by its Gate?

Al-Husayn b. Yahya b. Durays al-Bajali narrated to us. He said: My father narrated to us. He said: Abu `Awana narrated to us. He said: My father narrated to us. He said: `Abdullah b. Maslama al-Qa`nabi narrated to us. He said: `Abdullah b. Lahi`a narrated to us from Muhammad b. `Abd al-Rahman b. `Urwa b. al-Zubayr from his father from his grandfather. He said: A man insulted `Ali b. Abi Talib in the presence of `Umar b. al-Khattab, so `Umar said to him: Do you know who owns this grave? Muhammad b. `Abdullah b. `Abd al-Muttalib and `Ali b. Abi Talib b. `Abd al-Muttalib. Do not mention `Ali except in goodness, for surely, if you [speak of him] disparagingly, you hurt the one in his grave.

Al-Husayn b. Ahmad b. Idris narrated to us. He said: My father narrated to us. He said: Muhamad b. `Ali b. Mahbub narrated to me from Muhammad b. al-Husayn b. Abi’l Khattab from Abi Dawud al-Mustaraq – and his name is Sulayman b. Sufyan. He said: Al-Sadiq Ja`far b. Muhammad said: Three types of people get up from their beds: (1) One whose waking is for him and not against him, (2) one whose waking is against him and not for him, and (3) one whose waking is neither for him nor against him. As for the first type, he is one who deliberately awakes from sleep, performs ablution, prays, and remembers Allah (dhikr). As for the second type, he is one who does not stop disobeying Allah until he sleeps again – so that will be against him and not for him. As for the third type, he is one who does not stop sleeping until he awakes in the morning – so that will neither be against him nor for him.

Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Yahya al-`Attar narrated to us. He said: My father narrated to us. He said: Muhammad b. `Abd al-Jabbar narrated to me from al-Hasan b. `Ali b. Abi Hamza. He said: Dawud b. Kathir al-Raqqi informed me. He said: I heard Aba `Abdillah al-Sadiq say: Whoever would like Allah to lighten his pangs of death should maintain his kinship ties and be good to his parents, for if he does that, Allah will protect him from the pangs of death; and he will never be afflicted with poverty in his life.

And by this isnad, from al-Hasan b. `Ali b. Abi Hamza from `Ali b. Maymun al-Sa'igh. He said: I heard Aba `Abdillah al-Sadiq say: Whoever would like Allah to bring him into His mercy and settle him in His Paradise should beautify his character, be fair in personality, be merciful to the orphan, help the weak, and humble himself before Allah who created 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 Ya`qub b. Yazid from Muhammad b. Abi `Umayr from Ibrahim b. `Abd al-Hamid from Sa`d al-Askaf from Ziyad b. `Isa from Abi'l Jarud from al-Asbagh b. Nubata from `Ali . He would say: Whoever frequents the mosques will gain one of eight things: (1) a brother who will assist him for Allah, (2) valuable knowledge, (3) a firm sign (ayatun muhkama), (4) an awaited mercy, (5) a word that will guide him away from falsehood, (6) hearing a word that will take him to guidance, (7) abandoning a sin out of humility [before Allah], or (8) modesty.

My father narrated to us. He said: `Ali b. Ibrahim narrated to us from his father Ibrahim b. Hashim from Hammad b. `Isa from Hariz b. `Abdullah from Zurara b. A`yan. He said: Abu Ja`far said: Allah has obligated thirty-five prayers from one Friday to the next Friday, one of which is the Friday prayer that Allah obligated on Friday. He exempted it from nine: (1) the children, (2) the elderly, (3) the insane, (4) the traveller, (5) the slave, (6) women, (7) the ill, (8) the blind, and (9) those who are two parasangs away.

And by this isnad. He said: Abu Ja`far al-Baqir said: The qunut in witr is like the qunut on Friday. You say in the supplication of qunut: “O Allah! You perfected Your light, so I was guided, so praise be to You, our Lord. You opened Your hand, so I was given, so praise be to You, our Lord. You made Your forbearance great, so I was pardoned, so praise be to You, our Lord. Your Face is the most noble of faces and Your direction is the best of direction. Your giving is the best of gifts and congratulations to us. When we obey our Lord, You are grateful. When we disobey our Lord, You forgive whomever you wish. You answer the desperate, You take away harm, You heal the ill, and You deliver from the great calamity. No one rewards like You, and none can comprehend Your blessings. O Allah! I have raised my sight to You, and I have moved my feet, stretched out my neck, raised my hands, and supplicated with my tongue for You. I have gone to Your judgment for the actions. Our Lord! Forgive us, have mercy on us, and liberate a way between us and Your creation in justice – You are the best of liberators. O Allah! We complain to You over the absence of our Prophet, the harshness of the time on us, the arrival of seditions, the dominance of enemies, the plenitude of our enemy, and our lack of numbers, so grant relief in that, our Lord, and hasten the liberation from You, glorify the victory from You, and make a just Imam appear, O God of truth and Lord of the worlds.” (Allahumma tamma nurika fahadayt, falakal hamdu rabbana, wa bassatat yadika fa a`tayt, falakal hamdu rabbana, wa `atham hilmika fa `afawtu, wa falakal hamdu rabbana. Wajhaka akram al-wujuh, wa jihtika khayr al-jihat, wa a`tayta afdal al-`atayat wa ahna'ha. Tata` rabbana fa tushkar, wa ta`sa rabbana fa tughfar liman shi'it. Tujib al-mudtar, wa tukhshaf al-durr, wa tushfa al-saqim, wa tunjee min al-karb al-`athim. La yajzi bi ala'ik ahad, wa la yuhsa ni`ma'ika qawli qa'il. Allahumma ilayka rafa`tu absari, wa naqaltul aqdam, wa madattu'l a`naq, wa rafa`tul aydi, wa da`aytu bil lisan wa tahawkum ilayk fil a`mal. Rabbana aghfir lana warhamna, waftah baynana wa bayna khaqikal haq, wa anta khayrul fatihin. Allahumma ilayka nashku ghaybata nabiyyina, wa shiddatul zaman `alayna, wa wuqu` al-fitan, wa tathahir al-a`da', wa kuthrati `aduwina, wa qillati `adadina, wafruj dhalika ya rabb bi fat'h mink tu`ajjaluh, wa nasr minka tu`izzuhuh, wa imamin `adlin tathhiruh., ilahil haq, rabb al-`alamin) Then, say in the qunut of witr after this: “I seek the forgiveness of Allah and I repent to Him” (astaghfirallah wa atubu ilayh) seventy times. Seek refuge in Allah from the Fire many times. After completing the witr after the taslim, say: “May my Lord be glorified; the King, the Holy, the Glorious, the Wise” (Subhana rabbi, al-malik, al-quddus, al-`aziz, al-hakim) three times. [Then]: “Praise be to the Lord of the morning, praise be to the splitter of the mornings” (alhamdulillah rabb al-sabah, alhamdu li faliq alasbah) three times.

Muhammad b. Ali Majiluwayh narrated to us. He said: Muhammad b. Yahya al-`Attar narrated to us from Muhammad b. Ahmad b. Yahya b. Imran al-Ash`ari from Musa b. Ja`far al-Baghdadi from Ali b. Mu`abbad from Bandar b. Hammad from `Abdullah b. Fadala from Abi `Abdillah or Abi Ja`far . He said: I heard him say: When a child reaches three years, the following is to be said to him seven times: “Say: there is no god but Allah (qul la ilaha illallah).” Then, he is left until he reaches three years and seven months and twenty days, when it is to be said to him seven times: “Say: Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah (muhammadun rasul allah).” Then, he is left until he reaches four years. Then, it is to be said to him seven times: “Say: The blessings of Allah are on Muhammad and his Family (sallallahu `ala muhammadiw wa alih).” Then, he is left until he reaches five years. Then, it is to be said to him: “Where is your right, and where is your left?” When he understands that, turn his face to the qibla and it is to be said to him: Prostrate. Then, he is left until he reaches six years. When he reaches six years, he prays, and he is to learn to bow and prostrate. Then, he is left until he reaches seven years. When he reaches seven years, it is to be said to him: Wash your face and your hands. When he washes them, it is said to him: Pray. Then, he is left until he reaches nine years. When he reaches nine years, teach him the knowledge of the ablution and make him fulfill it, and command him to pray and make him fulfill it. If he learns to make ablution and pray, Allah forgives his parents God-willingly.