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كثير

Kathir

Kathir kept company with ʿAlī.

مهمل · Muhmal — mentioned, no judgement passed

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The Prophet, then the twelve Imams in order in gold: ʿAlī (ʿa)

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7 narrations 43% of them in Mīzān al-Ḥikma 1 man stands next to him in a chain →

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hadith 3709
Imam al-Baqir (AS) said, ‘Undervalue the abundant acts of obedience that you perform for Allah, in contempt of your lower self and in order to expose yourself to Allahs pardon.
الإمامُ الباقرُ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): اِستَقلِلْ مِن نَفسِكَ كَثيرَ الطّاعَةِ للّهِ؛ إزراءً عَلَى النَّفسِ وتَعَرُّضاً لِلعَفوِ.
Tags HumilityWorshipSoul (Nafs)
hadith 3708
The Prophet (SAWA) said, describing the intelligent person, ‘He regards the little good that others do as being much and regards the abundance of good that he himself does as being little.
رسولُ اللهِ (صَلَّيَ اللهُ عَلَيهِ وَ آلِهِ) ـ في صِفَةِ العاقِلِ ـ: يَستَكثِرُ قَليلَ الخَيرِ مِن غَيرِهِ، ويَستَقِلُّ كَثيرَ الخَيرِ مِن نَفسِهِ.
Tags Intellect/ReasonGood DeedsHumility
hadith 1150
Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘The believer is such that his joy is evident on his face whereas his sorrow is in his heart. His breast is at its widest [i.e. biggest heart] but his ego is at its lowest. He despises high rank and shuns reputation. His grief is long-lasting and his ambition is lofty. His silence is much and his time occupied. He is grateful, extremely patient, and immersed in deep thought. He is thrifty with his needs. He is good-natured and mild-tempered. His soul is firmer than steel whilst he [i.e. his ego] remains lower than a slave.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : المؤمنُ بِشْرُهُ في وجهِهِ ، وحُزنُهُ في قلبِهِ ، أوسَعُ شَيءٍ صَدْرا ، وأذَلُّ شَيءٍ نَفْسا ، يَكْرَهُ الرِّفْعةَ ، ويَشْنَأُ السُّمْعةَ ، طويلٌ غمُّهُ ، بَعيدٌ هَمُّهُ ، كثيرٌ صَمتُهُ ، مَشغولٌ وقتُهُ ، شَكورٌ ، صَبورٌ ، مَغمورٌ بفِكرَتِهِ ، ضَنينٌ بخَلّتِهِ ، سَهلُ الخَليقةِ ، لَيِّنُ العَرِيكةِ ، نَفسُهُ أصْلَبُ مِن الصَّلْدِ ، وهُو أذَلُّ مِن العبدِ .
Tags HumilitySilencePatience
hadith 1895
333. Amīr al-mu’minīn, peace be upon him, said describing a believer: A believer has a cheerful face, a sorrowful heart, a very broad chest (full of generosity), and a very humble heart. He hates high position and dislikes renown. His grief is long, his courage is far-reaching, his silence is much and, his time is occupied. He is grateful, enduring, buried in his thoughts, sparing in his friendship (with others), of bright demeanour and of soft temperament. He is stronger than stone but humbler than a slave.
٣٣٣. وَقَالَ (عليه ‏السلام) فِى صِفَةِ الْمُؤْمِنِ: الْمُؤْمِنُ بِشْرُهُ فِى وَجْهِهِ وَحُزْنُهُ فِى قَلْبِهِ أَوْسَعُ شَيْ‏ءٍ صَدْراً وَأَذَلُّ شَيْ‏ءٍ نَفْساً يَكْرَهُ الرِّفْعَةَ وَيَشْنَأُ السُّمْعَةَ طَوِيلٌ غَمُّهُ بَعِيدٌ هَمُّهُ كَثِيرٌ صَمْتُهُ مَشْغُولٌ وَقْتُهُ شَكُورٌ صَبُورٌ مَغْمُورٌ بِفِكْرَتِهِ ضَنِينٌ بِخَلَّتِهِ سَهْلُ الْخَلِيقَةِ لَيِّنُ الْعَرِيكَةِ نَفْسُهُ أَصْلَبُ مِنَ الصَّلْدِ وَهُوَ أَذَلُّ مِنَ الْعَبْدِ.
Tags God-consciousness/PietyHumilityCourage
hadith 911
Imam Ali (AS) said, The cheerfulness of a believer is in his face and his sorrow is in his heart. He has the broadest chest (i.e. has great patience, knowledge and virtue) and is most humble in spirit. He hates high position and dislikes renown. His grief is long, his sorrow is distant, his silence is much and his time is occupied. He is grateful and patient, submerged in his thoughts [about the Hereafter], sparing in his friendship, easy going and of soft temperament. He is firmer than a hard rock but humbler than a slave.
الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) : بِشْرُ المُؤْمِنِ في وَجْهِهِ وحُزْنُهُ في قَلْبِهِ أوْسَعُ شَيْء صَدْراً وَ أذَلُّ شَيْء نَفْساً يَكْرَهُ الرِّفْعةَ وَ يَشْنَأُ السُّمْعَةَ طَويلٌ غَمُّهُ بَعيدٌ هَمُّهُ كَثيرٌ صَمْتُهُ مَشْغُولٌ وَقْتُهُ صَبُورٌ شَكُورٌ مَغْمُورٌ بِفِكْرَتِهِ ضَنينٌ بِخُلَّتِهِ سَهْلُ الخليقَةِ لَيِّنُ العَريكَةِ نَفْسُهُ أصْلَبُ مِنَ الصُّلْدِ وَ هُوَ أذَلُّ مِنَ العَبْدِ
Tags HumilityPatienceGratitudeSilence
hadith 202
31-202 Al-Husayn ibn Ahmad ibn Idris - may God be pleased with him - narrated that his father quoted on the authority of Abi Ja’far Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Malik al-Kufi, on the authority of Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Mada’eni, on the authority of Fadhl ibn Kathir that Ali ibn Musa Ar-Ridha’ (a.s.) said, "
Whoever sees a poor person and greets him in a manner different from that with which he greets a rich man will visit God on the Resurrection Day while God is angry with him."
202 - حَدَّثَنا الحُسَيْنِ بْنِ أَحْمَدِ بْنِ إِدْرِيس‏ رَضِىَ اللهُعَنْهُ قالَ: حَدَّثَنا أَبي، عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ مالِكَ الكُوفِيّ، قالَ: حَدَّثَني مُحَمَّد بْنِ أحْمَد المَدائِنيّ، عَنْ فَضْلِ بْنِ كَثِيرٍ، عَنْ عَلِىِّ بْن مُوسَى الرِّضا عَلَيْهِ السَّلامُ قالَ
مَن لَقيَ فَقيراً مُسلِماً فَسَلِّمَ عَلَيْهِ خِلافً سَلامِه عَلَى الأَغنِياءِ لَقِيَ اللَّه عَزَّ وَجَلَّ يَوْمَ القِيامَةِ وَهُوَعَلَيْهِ غَضْبان.
Tags EqualityHumility
hadith 989
10-17 My father, may God be pleased with him, narrated to us, he said: Saʿd b. ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us, from Aḥmad b. Hilāl, from Umayyah b. ʿAlī, from ʿAbd Allāh b. al-Mughīrah, from Sulaymān b. Khālid, from Abū Jaʿfar (ʿas), who said that the
Messenger of God (ṣ) said, “God - Mighty and Exalted - has not been worshipped by anything better than Intellect. A believer does not possess Intellect until ten qualities are gathered in them; one may count on their good while being safe from their evil. They consider the little good of others as abundant, while counting their own abundant good as little. They never become averse to acquiring knowledge throughout their entire life, nor do they tire of the needs brought before them by others. Humiliation is more beloved to them than honour, and poverty more beloved to them than wealth. Their lot from this world is meager provisions. As for the tenth quality, and could you bear the tenth quality? It is that they should see none save that they say, 'they are better and more pious than I am.' For there are but two classes of people. Either a person is better and more pious than them, or they are worse and more base. When they see the one who is better and more pious, they should be humble before him to catch up to his rank. And when they meet someone worse and more base, they say, 'perhaps their goodness is hidden, and evil apparent, but maybe their end will be good.' When the believer has done this, their reputation will soar, and they will become prominent among the people of their time.”
10-17 حدثنا أبي رضي الله عنه قال: حدثنا سعد بن عبد الله، عن أحمد بن هلال عن امية بن علي، عن عبد الله بن المغيرة، عن سليمان بن خالد، عن أبي جعفر عليه السلام قال
قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله: لم يعبد الله عز وجل بشـيءأفضل من العقل، ولا يكون المؤمن عاقلا حتى يجتمع فيه عشر خصال: الخير منه مأمول، والشر منه مأمون، يستكثر قليل الخير ممن غيره، ويستقل كثير الخيرمن نفسه، ولايسأم من طلب العلم طول عمره، ولا يتبرم بطلاب الحوائج قبله، الذل أحب إليه من العز، والفقر أحب إليه من الغنى، نصيبه من الدنيا القوت، والعاشرة وما العاشرة لايرى أحدا إلا قال هو خير مني وأتقى، إنما الناس رجلان فرجل هو خير منه وأتقى، وآخر هو شر منه وأدنى، فاذا رأى من هو خير منه وأتقى تواضع له ليلحق به، وإذا لقى الذي هو شر منه وأدنى قال: عسى خير هذا باطن وشره ظاهر، وعسى أن يختم له بخير، فاذا فعل ذلك فقد علا مجده، وساد أهل زمانه
Notes
"والفقر أحب إليه من الغنى" ("and poverty more beloved to him than wealth") cf. Maʿānī al-Akhbār Ḥadīth #314. Abū Dharr (ra) famously said, "Poverty is more beloved to me than wealth." Tārīkh Madīnat Dimashq vol. 13 pg. 253 records: محمد بن يزيد المبرد قال قيل للحسن بن علي أن أبا ذر يقول الفقر احب الي من الغنى والسقم أحب الي من الصحة فقال رحم الله أبا ذر أما أنا اقول فمن اتكل على حسن اختيار الله له لم يتمن انه في غير الحالة التي اختار الله تعالى له وهذا حد الوقوف على الرضا بما يصرف به القضاء" Muḥammad b. Yazīd al-Mubarrad said: it was said to al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī (ʿas) that Abū Dharr would say, "Poverty is more beloved to me than wealth, and sickness is more beloved to me than health." He (ʿas) said, "May God have mercy on Abū Dharr. As for myself, I say that whoever relies on the best of God's choice for him will never want to be in any state other than the one God Almighty has chosen for him. This is the ultimate extent of satisfaction with what Divine Decree issues forth for him." Vid. al-Dhahabī, Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ vol. 3 pg. 263; Ibn Kathīr, al-Bidāyah wa al-Nihāyah vol. 11 pg. 200; al-Qushayrī, al-Risālah al-Qushayriyyah vol. 2 pg. 345; al-Sayyid al-Marʿashī al-Najafī, Sharḥ Iḥqāq al-Ḥaqq vol. 19 pg. 354-55 citing Mirʾāt al-Muʾminīn & Wasīlat al-Najāh citing al-Ṣawāʿiq al-Muḥriqah; Ibn al-Qayyim, Madārij al-Sālikīn vol. 2 pg. 177; al-Ṣāliḥī, Subul al-Hudā vol. 11 pg. 70; Ibn Abī al-Ḥadīd, Sharḥ Nahj al-Balāghah vol. 3 pg. 157; al-Muttaqī al-Hindī, Kanz al-ʿUmmāl pg. 415-6 Hadīth #8538. Cf. a similar narration from the Sixth Imam (ʿas) in Amālī al-Mufīd Ḥadīth #221 and Maʿānī al-Akhbār Ḥadīth #252. Also find recorded a similar statement from Jābir b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Anṣārī (ra), who fell ill and was visited by the Fifth Imam (ʿas). The Imam (ʿas) asked how Jābir fared, to which he responded, يابن رسول الله، أصبحت والمرض أحبُّ اليَّ من الصحّة. والفقر أحبُّ إليَّ من الغنى. والذلُّ أحبَّ إليَّ من العزِّ "O' son of the Messenger of God, I have awoken, and sickness is more beloved to me than health, and poverty more beloved to me than wealth, and humiliation more beloved to me than honour." Al-Sayyid Kāẓim al-Ḥāʾirī records this tradition in his Tazkiyah al-Nafs vol. 1 pg. 520. Rijāl al-Kashī (vol. 1 pg. 533 ḥad. 1018) and al-Kharāʾij (vol. 2 pg. 739 ḥad. 54) have a miracle account from Muḥammad b. Shammūn or Muḥammad b. Maymūn, depending on the recension, though more likely the former (as he was long lived enough to have been able to write to the eleventh Imām (ʿas) while remembering the words of the sixth (ʿas), indicating a reconciliation between him and the Imāms (ʿas), despite the Wāqifī and Ghālī past he is criticized for, and this explains why the family of Imām al-Riḍā (ʿas) supported his), who writes to Imām al-ʿAskarī (ʿas) complaining about poverty while recalling to himself that Imām al-Ṣādiq (ʿas) said: "poverty with us is better than wealth with those other than us, and being killed alongside us is better than life alongside other than us." (الفقر معنا خير من الغنى مع غيرنا والقتل معنا خير من الحياة مع غيرنا) The Imām (ʿas) writes back to Muḥammad with the miraculous knowledge of Muhammad's recollection of this hadith to himself, and explains it and the benefits of poverty for the believers.
Tags Intellect/ReasonTrustworthiness (Amanah)GenerosityGod-consciousness/PietyGood CharacterHumility
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