16. He said: Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Umar al-Ji’abi reported to me from Abul Abbas ibnMuhammad ibn Saeed, who reported from Ja’far ibn Abdillah, who reported from his brother Muhammad ibn Abdillah, who reported from Ishaq ibn Ja’far ibn Muhammad, from Muhammad ibn Hilal al-Mazhaji, who said: Your father Ja’far ibn Muhammad al-Sadiq told me: "When you are in (financial) need, rise early in the day, for the subsistence (Rizq) is distributed before sunrise. And Allah, Most High, has blessed this Ummah in its early hours; and give away alms in the early hour; because adversities do not follow the alms (Sadaqah)."