حمزة

"No, it is like the lice from your own body."

he said: "If an absent man wants to divorce his wife, he should leave her for one month."

“Whoever humiliates a poor believer will be humiliated by God until he stops humiliating him.”

“I asked the Imam as to what he meant by that defect.” Imam (a.s.) replied, “It is the oath of Allah’s disobedience.” I asked, “What is the meaning of that anger?” He replied, “Taking an oath out of anger and then repenting it.”

He said to me: O Aba Hamza! Do not place `Ali lower than where Allah has placed him, and do not raise `Ali higher than where Allah has placed him. It is enough that `Ali fights the people of the globe and that he brings the people of Paradise together.

“Al-Qa’im will come from the defile of Mountain Thi Tuwa with three hundred and thirteen men as the number of the Muslims, who have fought in the battle of Badr. He will lean his back against the Black Rock (in the Kaaba) and will shake his victorious banner.” Ali bin Abu Hamza said: “I mentioned that to Abul Hasan Musa bin Ja’far al-Kadhim (as) and he said: “It is an evidenced book.”

“I heard abu Ja‘far (a.s.), say, ‘The most beloved servant of Allah in His sight is a servant to whom providing Benevolent Assistance is most beloved and who loves to perform such act.’” Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn ‘Isa from Muhammad ibn Sinan from Dawud al-Riqqiy from abu Hamzah from abu Ja’far (a.s.), a similar Hadith.

“O abu Hamza, if you will face something that frightens you, go to a comer of your home, face the Qiblah and perform two Rak’at (a prayer consisting of two times bowing on one’s knees) prayer then say, ‘O the most sharp-sighted of the on-lookers, O the most kind of hearing of the hearers, O the quickest to judge and O the most Beneficent of the benefactors,’ seventy times, each time ask for your wish.’”

I asked Qasim bin Ismail Qarshi, who was a Mamtur : What did you hear from Muhammad bin Abu Hamza? He replied: Only one tradition. But after that a large number traditions were issued by him and he narrated them all from Muhammad bin Abi Hamza. Ibn Rabah also says: I asked Qasim: How many traditions have you heard from Hannan? He replied: Four or five. But later on a large number of traditions were issued by Qasim, which he narrated from Hannan.

I said to Abu Ja’far, peace be upon him: The saying of Allah, Exalted is He: «Everything is to perish, except for His Face» (28:88) He said: Everything is to perish and His Face will remain. Indeed, Allah, Exalted and Glorious is He, is Greater than being characterized with a face, however, its meaning is: Everything is to perish, except for His religion and the face from which He is approached.

Everything in this book that is narrated from Al-Hasan ibn Qarin has been transmitted by me from Hamzah ibn Muhammad Al-Alawi - may Allah (swt) have mercy on him - from Ali ibn Ibrahim, from his father, from Al-Hasan ibn Qarin.

"There can be no deed (a'mal) without intention (niyyah)."

O Thabit! When Allah loves a person, He pours afflictions on him and rains them heavily on him. And (all the while) we pass our days and nights with him (unaware of his suffering).

He said: "If a seepage (liquid or discharge) appears behind a latrine (toilet) and it is in the direction of the Qiblah, one should cover it with something."

“Once I went to see Ali ibn al-Husayn (a.s.) and met him at the door when he was coming out saying, ‘In the name of Allah, I believe in Allah, and I place my trust in Allah,’ he then said, ‘O abu Hamza, when a servant (of Allah) comes out of his door a Satan stands on his way, when he says, “In the name of Allah,” two angels will say, ‘That is enough for you,’ when he says, “I believe in Allah,” they will say, ‘You have found guidance,’ when he says, “I place my trust in Allah,” they will say, ‘You are protected.’ Satan then moves away and say to others, ‘What can we do to one who is guided, sufficed and protected?’ The narrator has said that then the Imam said, ‘O Lord, my dignity is in Your hand today,’ then he said, ‘O abu Hamza, if you leave the people alone they will not leave you alone, if you reject them they will not reject you.’ I then asked, ‘What should I do then?’ The Imam said, ‘Give them of your honor just to receive help on the day when you will need help very badly.’”

“If one of us does not want al-Halwa’ he wants drink (which is sweet).”’

“I once asked Abu al-Hassan (a.s.) ‘Can I read Quran in a bathhouse and have intercourse (in the bathhouse)?’ He (the Imam (a.s.)) replied, ‘It is not harmful.’”

"If a man purchases his hady (sacrificial animal) and confines it in his house, it has reached its designated place. If he wishes, he may shave his head."

“Abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), has said, ‘Removing hairs from the nostrils (outside) beautifies the face.”

I asked Imam (as) about my neighbor who passed away and left behind daughters. Imam (as) replied: "The wealth belongs to them."