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A man’s striking his hand on his thigh, when suffering a misfortune, causes suspension of his rewards for his suffering.’”

“Showing that one loves people is one half (the power) of reason.”

Abu Abdullah (asws) said: ‘The Rasool (saww) Allah (azwj) had fever so Jibraeel (as) gave to him (saww) a charm. So he said: ‘In the Name of Allah (azwj) I perform incantation on you (saww), O Muhammad (saww), and in the Name of Allah (azwj) I heal you (saww), and in the Name of Allah (azwj) from every disease which has exhausted you (saww), and in the Name of Allah (azwj), and Allah (azwj) is your (saww) Healer. So take it and congratulations to you (saww). [56:75] Nay, I swear by the places of the stars for it would free you (saww) from it by the Permission of Allah (azwj)’. Bakr (the narrator) said, ‘And I asked him (asws) about an incantation for the fever, so he (asws) narrated to me with this’.

“Tasbih of Fatimah al-Zahra (a.s.) is a form of ‘Often speaking and remembering Allah’ about which Allah, the Most Majestic, the Most Holy, has said, ‘Believers, remember Allah very often (33:41) and glorify Him both in the mornings and in the evenings.’” (33:42) It is narrated from him (narrator of the Hadith above) from Ali ibn al-Hakam from Sayf ibn ‘Amirah from abu ‘Usamah Zayd al-Shahham and Mansur ibn Hazim and Sa’id al-‘A’raj from Abu ‘Abdillah (a.s.) a similar Hadith.

“Abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.) has said, ‘Doubts and disobedience are in the fire. It (doubt or people having doubts) is not from us nor is it directed to us.’”

“I once heard abu al-Hassan (a.s.), saying, ‘Eating egg often increases the number of one’s children.’”

“If one drinks sawiq for forty mornings his shoulder will fill up with strength.’”

“Abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), has said, ‘The good deeds of three kinds of people cannot rise up. One is a runaway slave, a woman whose husband is not happy with her and one who drags his gown on the ground out of pride.’”

“Abu Ja‘far (a.s.), has said, ‘Do not go to bed with a (underage) girl before she becomes nine or ten years old.’”

“Abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), has said, ‘Fold your clothes for the night because Satan wears during the night the spread out clothes.’”

‘The people are (similar to) a mine, like a mine of gold and that of silver. So they had an origin in the days of ignorance (pre-Islam), so there are (very few) who had an origin in Al-Islam’.

“I once asked abu al-Hassan (a.s.), about a woman who is affected mentally and she has an asset which is in the hands of her brother, if there is Zakat on it. He (the Imam) said, ‘If her brother does business with it Zakat is obligatory.’” A number of our people have narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from ibn abu Nasr from Muhammad ibn Sama‘ah from Musa ibn Bakr from Salih a similar Hadith.”

“Abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), has said, ‘The outstanding quality of the beginning of time for Salah (prayer) compared with the end of time for Salah (prayer) is better for a man than his children and belongings.’”

“Abu al-Hassan, Musa (a.s.), has said, ‘Utensils of gold and silver are of the assets of those who do not have certainty (in the laws of Allah).”’

“Abu al-Hassan (a.s.), has said, ‘It is of the well-being of a man who on moving aside the veil of a woman finds her white.’”

“I once asked abu al-Hassan, al-Rida’ (a.s.), about peacock. He (the Imam) said, ‘It is not lawful to use it or its eggs for food.’”

“Abu Ja‘far (a.s.), has said, ‘If a woman is divorced when she is pregnant her waiting period is childbirth even if she gives birth in the same hour.’”

“I once asked abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), about applying hair dye with woad. He (the Imam) said, ‘It is not harmful. At the time al-Husayn (a.s.), was murdered he had applied hair dye with woad. 5 ”

Abu Abdullah (asws) said: ‘The wisdom is the objective of the believer, so wherever one of you finds his objective, so he should take it’.

“Abu al-Hassan (a.s.), has said that ’Amir al-Mu’minin Ali (a.s.), would say, ’Lending a loan is protection for Zakat.’”