Al-Kāfi - Volume 8


Book 1, Chapter 159

One suffering from sorrow bears more patience
1 Ḥadīth

عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَمَّنْ ذَكَرَهُ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ (عليه السلام) قَالَ انْقَطَعَ شِسْعُ نَعْلِ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ (عليه السلام) وَ هُوَ فِي جَنَازَةٍ فَجَاءَ رَجُلٌ بِشِسْعِهِ لِيُنَاوِلَهُ فَقَالَ أَمْسِكْ عَلَيْكَ شِسْعَكَ فَإِنَّ صَاحِبَ الْمُصِيبَةِ أَوْلَى بِالصَّبْرِ عَلَيْهَا.


159. A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Ibn Mahboub, from the one whom he mentioned, who has narrated the following: Abu Abdullah (a.s) said, ‘A strip of the slipper of Abu Abdullah (a.s) broke whilst he (a.s) was in a funeral. So a man came with his strip for his (a.s) slipper (as a replacement). He (a.s) said: ‘Hold on to your strip, for patience is foremost for the people in misfortune’.