Muhammad b. `Ali Majiluwayh narrated to us. He said: My uncle Muhammad b. Abi’l Qasim narrated to me. He said: Muhammad b. `Ali al-Kufi narrated to me from al-Mufaddal b. Salih al-Asadi from Muhammad b. Marwan from Abi `Abdillah al-Sadiq from his father from his forefathers . He said: The Messenger of Allah (s) said: Whoever hates us, the Ahl al-Bayt, Allah will raise him up on the Day of Resurrection as a Jew. It was said: O Messenger of Allah! Even if he bears witness to the two testimonies? He said: Yes, for surely, he only upholds these two sayings so that his blood may not be shed, or so that he does not pay the jizya as a subordinate. Then, he said: Whoever hates us, the Ahl al-Bayt, Allah will raise him as a Jew. It was said: How, O Messenger of Allah? He said: If he came by the Dajjal, he would believe in him.

My father narrated to us. He said: Sa`d b. `Abdullah narrated to us from Ahmad b. Abi `Abdillah from Abi’l Jawza’ from al-Husayn b. `Ilwan from `Amr b. Khalid from `Asim b. Abi’l Najud al-Asadi from Ibn `Umar from al-Hasan b. `Ali . He said: I heard My father `Ali b. Abi Talib say: The Messenger of Allah (s) said: If a Muslim person were to sit in his place of prayer in which he prays Fajr, remembering Allah until sunrise, he will have the reward of one who has made pilgrimage to the House of Allah – and he will be forgiven. If he sits in it until the moment in which prayer becomes permissible [again after sunrise], then prays two or four units, [all] his past sins will be forgiven, and he will have the reward of one who has made pilgrimage to the House of Allah.

Muhammad b. al-Hasan b. Ahmad b. al-Walid narrated to us. He said: Muhammad b. al-Hasan al-Saffar narrated to us. He said: Muhammad b. al-Husayn b. Abi’l Khattab narrated to us from al-Hakam b. Miskin al-Thaqai from Abi’l `Ala’ al-Khaffaf from al-Sadiq Ja`far b. Muhammad . He said: He who prays Maghrib and follows it up by praying two units, without speaking in between, shall be among the elect (`iliyyin). If he prays four units, he shall have an accepted Hajj recorded for him.

Muhammad b. Musa b. al-Mutawakkil narrated to us. He said: Muhammad b. Ja`far al-Asadi narrated to us from Sahl b. Ziyad al-Adami from Ya`qub b. Yazid from Muhammad b. Hamza from him who heard Aba `Abdillah al-Sadiq say: He who meets a pilgrim and makes room for him shall be like one who reached the [Black] Stone.

Ahmad b. Harun al-Fami narrated to us. He said: Muhammad b. `Abdullah b. Ja`far b. Jami` al-Himyari narrated to us from his father from Banan b. Muhammad b. `Isa from his father from `Abdullah b. al-Mughira from Isma`il b. Muslim al-Sukuni from al-Sadiq Ja`far b. Muhammad from his father . He said: The Messenger of Allah (s) said: There is not a worshiper who is insulted while he is fasting who responds: “Surely, I am fasting. Peace be unto you” except that the Lord says: “My servant sought refuge from My servant by fasting. Save him from My Fire and bring him into My Paradise.”

`Abd al-Wahid b. Muhammad al-`Attar narrated to us. He said: `Ali b. Muhammad b. Qutayba al-Nisapuri narrated to us. He said: Hamdan b. Sulayman narrated to us. He said: `Ali b. al-Nu`man narrated to us from `Abdullah b. Talha from al-Sadiq Ja`far b. Muhammad . He said: Whoever fasts the twenty-seventh of Rajab, Allah records the reward of seventy years of fasting for him.

Muhammad b. `Ali Majiluwayh narrated to us. He said: Muhammad b. Ahmad b. Yahya b. `Imran al-Ash`ari narrated to us. He said: Muhammad b. Hassan al-Razi narrated to us from Sahl b. Ziyad al-Wasiti from Bakr b. Salih from Muhammad b. Sinan from Mundhir b. Yazid from Yunus b. Thibyan. He said: Abu `Abdillah al-Sadiq said: Whoever fasts on a hot day and is afflicted with thirst, Allah commissions one thousand angels to wipe down his face and give him glad tidings. Once he breaks his fast, Allah says: “How sweet is your fragrance and your spirit! O My angels! Bear witness that I have forgiven him.”

Ahmad b. Ziyad b. Ja`far al-Hamadani narrated to us. He said: `Ali b. Ibrahim b. Hashim narrated to us from his father from al-Husayn b. al-Nawfali from Isma`il b. Abi Ziyad from al-Sadiq Ja`far b. Muhammad from his forefathers . He said: The Messenger of Allah (s) said: There is not a faster who attends to a people who are eating except that his appendages glorify [Allah]. The angels bless him, and their blessings are a repentance for him.

Ja`far b. Muhammad b. Masrur narrated to us. He said: Al-Husayn b. Muhammad b. `Amer narrated to us from his uncle `Abdullah b. `Amer from Muhammad b. Abi `Umayr from Hammad b. `Uthman from al-Halabi. He asked Aba `Abdillah al-Sadiq about fasting while in the city (not travelling). So, he said: There are three days in every month: (1) the Thursday before [the first] Friday, (2) the Wednesday before [the second] Friday, and (3) the Thursday before [the third] Friday. So, al-Halabi said to him: Is this a day for every ten days? He said: Yes. And Amir al-Mu’minin said: Fasting the month of Ramadan and three days of every month removes anxiety from the chests. Surely, fasting three in every month is equal to fasting for the whole year. Allah says, “He who comes with a good deed shall be rewarded tenfold.” (6:160)

Muhammad b. Ibrahim b. Ishaq al-Talaqani narrated to us. He said: Ahmad b. Muhammad al-Hamadani the servant of the Children of Hashim narrated to us. He said: Al-Mundhir b. Muhammad narrated to us from Ja`far b. Sulayman from `Abdullah b. al-Fadl al-Hashimi He said: I was with Abi `Abdillah Ja`far b. Muhammad al-Sadiq when a man entered from the people of Tus. So, he said to him: O son of the Messenger of Allah! What is [the reward] of one who visits the grave of Abi `Abdillah al-Husayn b. `Ali ? So, he said to him: O Tusi! Whoever visits the grave of Abi `Abdillah al-Husayn b. `Ali whilst knowing that he is an Imam from Allah whose obedience is obligatory for the worshipers, Allah will forgive his past and future sins. His intercession will be accepted for seventy sinners. He will not ask Allah for a need at his grave except that He will fulfill it for him. He said: Musa b. Ja`far entered, so he sat him down on his lap, kissed his forehead, and then turned to him (the man from Tus) and said to him: O Tusi! Surely, he is the Imam, the Caliph, and the Proof after me. From his loins will come a man with whom Allah is pleased (rida) in His heavens and the worshipers are [pleased with him] on His Earth. He will be killed by poison, in oppression and enmity, in your land. He will be buried there as a stranger. Surely, he who visits him in his solitude, knowing that he is an Imam after his father, and that his obedience is obligated by Allah, shall be like one who visits the Messenger of Allah (s).

Ahmad b. `Ali b. Ibrahim b. Hashim narrated to us. He said: My father narrated to me from my grandfather from al-Saqr b. Dulf He said: I heard my master `Ali b. Muhammad b. `Ali al-Rida say: Whoever has a need from Allah should visit the grave of my grandfather al-Rida in Tus after having bathed. Then, he should pray two units at his head and ask Allah for his need in his qunut, and it will be fulfilled for him as long as he is not asking for depravity or severing blood ties. Surely, the place where he is buried is a plot in Paradise. No believer visits it except that Allah frees him from the Fire and brings him into the Abode of Resolution.

My father narrated to us. He said: `Abdullah b. al-Hasan al-Mu’addab narrated to us from Ahmad b. `Ali al-Isfahani from Ibrahim b. Muhammad al-Thaqafi. He said: Muhammad b. Dawud al-Dinuri narrated to us. He said: Mundhir al-`Ishrani narrated to us. He said: Sa`id b. Zayd narrated to us from Abi Qanbal from Abi’l Jarud from Sa`id b. Jubayr from Ibn `Abbas from the Prophet (s). He said: The ring pull on the gate of Paradise is made from ruby, and it is upon sheets of gold. When the ring pull knocks on the sheet, it chimes and says: “O `Ali (ya `Ali).”

Ahmad b. al-Hasan al-Qattan narrated to us. He said: Al-Qasim b. `Abbas narrated to us. He said: Ahmad b. Yahya al-Kufi narrated to us. He said: Abu Qutada al-Harrani narrated to us from Ja`far b. Burqan from Maymun b. Mahran from Zadhan from Ibn `Abbas. He said: When Allah liberated Mecca, we went out, and we had eight thousand men; and when we entered the evening, we had ten thousand Muslims. So, emigration was mentioned, and the Messenger of Allah (s) said: There is no emigration after the conquest of Mecca. He said: Then, we ended up in Hawazin, and the Prophet (s) said to `Ali b. Abi Talib : O `Ali! Stand, and look to your honour with Allah. Speak to the Sun once it rises. Ibn `Abbas said: By Allah, I did not envy anyone except `Ali b. Abi Talib on that day. So, I said to Fadl: Stand up so that we may see how `Ali b. Abi Talib speaks to the Sun. So, when the Sun rose, `Ali b. Abi Talib stood and said: Peace be unto you – O perpetual, obedient, and righteous servant – in the obedience of Allah, its Lord. So, the Sun replied to him, saying: And also with you, O brother and deputy of the Messenger of Allah, O Proof of Allah over His creation. So, `Ali fell [weeping] in a prostration of gratitude toward Allah. He said: By Allah, I saw the Messenger of Allah (s) stand, take `Ali by the head, help him stand up, and wipe his face, saying: Stand, my beloved, for you have made the people of heaven weep from your weeping. Allah has boasted to the carriers of the Throne about you.

My father narrated to us. He said: Sa`d b. `Abdullah narrated to us. He said: Ibrahim b. Hashim narrated to us. He said: Isma`il b. Marar narrated to us. He said: Yunus b. `Abd al-Rahman narrated to me from Yunus b. Ya`qub. He said: Abi `Abdillah al-Sadiq was with a group of his companions, among whom were Humran b. A`yun, Mu’min al-Taq, Hisham b. Salim, and al-Tayyar; and [another] group of his companions, among whom was Hisham b. al-Hakam, who was a youth. So, Abu `Abdillah said: O Hisham! He said: I am at your service, O son of the Messenger of Allah. He said: Will you not inform me of what happened with `Amr b. `Ubayd and how you questioned him? Hisham said: May I be your sacrifice, O son of the Messenger of Allah. I am yours, and I am shy before you, and so I am tongue-tied when I am in front of you. So, Abu `Abdillah said: When you are commanded a thing, then do it. Hisham said: I was informed of `Amr b. `Ubayd and his gatherings in the mosque of Basra, and that was weighty [and distressing] for me. So, I set out to him and I entered Basra on Friday and came to the mosque of Basra. I saw a large circle [of people] with `Amr b. `Ubayd, who was wearing a black woollen cloth around his waist and another over his shoulders. The people were posing questions to him. I asked the people to make way for me and they complied. Then, I sat in the back row upon my knees. I then said: O scholar, I am a stranger, will you give me permission to ask you a set of questions? He said: So, he said: Yes. He said: So, I said to him: Do you have eyes? He said: O my son, what kind of question is this? How do you question a thing that you can see? So, I said: This is my question. He said: O my son, ask, even if your question is absurd. He said: Answer me in that. He said: So, he said to me: Ask. He said: I said: Do you have eyes? He said: Yes. He said: I said: What do you see with it? He said: Colours and persons. He said: I said: Do you have a nose? He said: Yes. He said: I said: What do you do with it? He said: I smell scents with it. He said: I said: Do you have a tongue? He said: Yes. He said: I said: Do you have a nose? He said: Yes. He said: I said: What do you do with it? He said: I smell scents with it. He said: I said: Do you have a tongue? He said: Yes. He said: I said: What do you do with it? He said: I speak with it. He said: I said: Do you have ears? He said: Yes. He said: I said: What do you do with them? He said: I hear sounds with them. He said: I said: Do you have hands? He said: Yes. He said: I said: What do you do with them? He said: I press with them, and with them I know what is soft from what is coarse. He said: I said: Do you have feet? He said: Yes. He said: I said: What do you do with them? He said: I move from place to place with them. He said: I said: Do you have lips? He said: Yes. He said: I said: What do you do with them? He said: I distinguish foods by their differences with them. He said: I said: Do you have a heart? He said: Yes. He said: I said: What do you do with it? He said: With it I distinguish between all of that which my body parts detect. He said: I said: With these body parts, are you not needless of a heart? He said: No. I said: How can this be when they are ample? He said: O my son, if a body part doubts anything which it has smelt, tasted, or heard, they refer it to the heart to remove doubt and replace it with certainty. He said: I said: So, therefore, Allah has appointed the heart to [deal with] the doubts of the body parts. He said: Yes. He said: I said: And the heart is necessary, otherwise the body parts would never attain certainty. He said: Yes. He said: I said: O Abu Marwan, surely, Allah would not leave your body parts without appointing a leader (imam) for them so that they may verify the truth and attain certainty in what is doubted. So, how then could He leave all the creatures in their perplexity, doubt, and schisms without appointing an Imam, to whom they may refer their doubts and confusions to, when He has given the parts of your body a leader to whom you can refer your doubts and perplexities to? He said: So, he went silent and did not say anything to me. He said: Then, he looked to me and said: Are you Hisham? So, I said: No. He said: So, he said to me: Have you sat with him? So, I said: No. He said: So where are you from? I said: From the people of Kufa. He said: You, then, are he! He said: Then he embraced me, sat me in his seat, and did not speak until I stood [from it]. So, Abu `Abdillah laughed. Then, he said: O Hisham, who has taught you this? He said: I said: O son of the Messenger of Allah, it rolled off my tongue. He said: O Hisham, this, by Allah, is written in the scrolls of Ibrahim and Musa.

Muhammad b. `Ali Majiluwayh narrated to us from his uncle Muhammad b. Abi’l Qasim from Ahmad b. Hilal from Ahmad b. Muhammad from Abi Nasr from Aban from Zurara and Isma`il b. `Abbad al-Qasri from Sulayman al-Ju`fi from Abi `Abdillah al-Sadiq . He said: When the Prophet (s) was raised up, and he ended up where Allah willed for him, his Lord whispered to him. Then, when he descended to the fourth heaven, He called out to him: O Muhammad! He said: I am at your service, my Lord. He said to him: Who from your Nation have you chosen to be your vicegerent (khalifa) after you? He said: Choose that for me, so that You may be the decider for me. So, He said to him: I have chosen the best of you for you – `Ali b. Abi Talib .

Muhammad b. Musa b. al-Mutwakkil narrated to us. He said: `Abdullah b. Ja`far al-Himyari narrated to us. He said: Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Muhammad narrated to us. He said: Al-Hasan b. Mahbub narrated to us from Jamil b. Salih from `Abdullah b. Ghalib from Abi `Abdillah al-Sadiq . He said: A believer should have eight characteristics: (1) [they should be] dignified with calamities, (2) patient with tribulation, (3) thankful when relaxed, and (4) content with what Allah has given him of sustenance. (5) He should not wrong the enemies, and (6) he should not be a burden on his friends. (7) He should tire his body, and (8) the people should be at ease because of him. Surely, knowledge is the friend of the believer; forbearance is his vizier, patience is the commander of his forces, kindness is his brother, and gentleness is his father.

Muhammad b. Musa b. al-Mutawakkil narrated to us. He said: `Ali b. al-Husayn al-Sa`d Abadi narrated to me from Ahmad b. Abi `Abdillah al-Barqi. He said: `Abd al-`Athim b. `Abdullah al-Hasani narrated to me He said: Al-Hasan b. `Abdullah narrated to me from Yunus b. Thibyan. He said: Abu `Abdillah al-Sadiq said: Fatima has nine names with Allah: (1) Fatima, (2) Siddiqa (veracious), (3) Mubaraka (blessed), (4) Tahira (impeccable), (5) Zakiyya (pure), (6) Radiya (pleasing to Allah), (7) Mardiyya (pleased with Allah), (8) Muhaddatha (inspired), (9) Zahra (Illuminating). Then, he said: Do you know what is the meaning of Fatima? I said: Inform me, master. He said: She is weaned (fatimat) from evil. Then, he said: Had Amir al-Mu’minin not married her, she would not have a match on the face of the Earth until the Day of Resurrection, from Adam to those after him.

Ja`far b. Muhammad b. Masrur narrated to us. He said: Al-Husayn b. Muhammad b. `Amer narrated to us from Mu`alla b. Muhammad al-Basri from Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Abi Nasr al-Bazanti from `Ali b. Ja`far. He said: I heard Aba’l Hasan Musa b. Ja`far say: The Messenger of Allah (s) was sitting when an angel visited him. It had twenty-four faces. So, the Messenger of Allah (s) said to him: My beloved Gabriel, I have never seen you in this form. So, the angel said: I am not Gabriel. I am Mahmud. Allah sent me to marry the light to the light. So, he (s) said: Who to who? He said: Fatima to `Ali. He said: When he turned around, he saw that, between his shoulders, it was written: “Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, `Ali is his deputy.” So, the Messenger of Allah (s) said: When was this written between your shoulders? So, he said: Twenty-two thousand years before Allah created Adam.