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Hadith 367
Hadith #
367
Book
Al-Amālī
Volume
1
Section
43
Part
Content
Chapter
The Forty-Third Assembly, the Assembly of Friday, the Twenty-First of Safar, 368 AH.
Source
Shaykh Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Ṣaduq
۞
Abu Ja`far Muhammad b. `Ali b. al-Husayn b. Musa b. Babuwayh al-Qummi (ra) narrated to us. He said: Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Yahya al-`Attar (rh) narrated to us. He said: My father narrated to us from Muhammad b. Ahmad b. Yahya b. `Imran al-Ash`ari. He said: Abu `Abdillah al-Razzaq – and his name is `Abdullah b. Ahmad – narrated to me from Sajjada – and his name is al-Hasan b. `Ali b. Abi `Uthman, and the name of my father is `Uthman al-Habib – from Muhammad b. Abi Hamza from Mu`awiya b. Wahb from Abi `Abdillah al-Sadiq Ja`far b. Muhammad (as). He said
A wiseman sought a wiseman for seven hundred parasangs to attain seven words. When he caught up to him, he said to him: O you! What is higher than heaven, wider than Earth, richer than the sea, harder than stone, hotter than the Fire, colder than Ice Hell (zamharir), and heavier than the stabilizing mountains? So, he said to him: Truth is higher than heaven, justice is wider than Earth, a rich soul is richer than the sea, the heart of a disbeliever is harder than stone, the greedy and possessive is hotter than the Fire, one who loses hope in the mercy of Allah is colder than Ice Hell, and slandering the innocent is heavier than the stabilizing mountains.
1 - حدثنا الشيخ الجليل أبو جعفر محمد بن علي بن الحسين بن موسى ابن بابويه القمي (رضي الله عنه)، قال: حدثنا أحمد بن محمد بن يحيى العطار (رحمه الله)، قال: حدثنا أبي، عن محمد بن أحمد بن يحيى بن عمران الاشعري، قال: حدثني أبو عبد الله الرازي واسمه عبد الله بن أحمد، عن سجادة واسمه الحسن بن علي بن أبي عثمان، واسم أبي عثمان حبيب، عن محمد بن أبي حمزة، عن معاوية بن وهب، عن أبي عبد الله الصادق جعفر بن محمد (عليه السلام)، قال
تبع حكيم حكيما سبعمائة فرسخ في سبع كلمات، فلما لحق به قال له: يا هذا، ما أرفع من السماء، وأوسع من الارض، وأغنى من البحر، وأقسى من الحجر، وأشد حرارة من النار، وأشد بردا من الزمهرير، وأثقل من الجبال الراسيات. فقال له: يا هذا، الحق أرفع من السماء، والعدل أوسع من الارض، وغنى النفس أغنى من البحر، وقلب الكافر أقسى من الحجر، والحريص الجشع أشد حرارة من النار، واليأس من روح الله عز وجل أشد بردا من الزمهرير، والبهتان على البرئ أثقل من الجبال الراسيات (1).
Tags JusticeContentment (Qana'ah)HellfireTruthfulness

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