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Hadith.1372 - Imam Muhammad ibn Ali Al-Baqir (as) said: "Indeed, Allah (swt), Blessed and Exalted, loves one who engages in light-heartedness in a gathering without indecency, one who reflects deeply while alone, one who contemplates lessons from life in solitude, and one who stays awake for prayer."

“Abū ʿJaʿfar (a) said, ‘It used to be said: verily among the most beloved of the servants of Allah to Allah is the doer of good who repents often.’”

Imam Baqir (a.s) said: “If you do something which God is not pleased with once, God will cover it up. If you repeat it again, God will cover it up again. But if you do it the third time, God will dispatch an angel in the form of a man to publicly announce what you did.”

“Abu Ja’far (a.s.) has said, ‘By Allah no one escapes sins except those who confess it.’ The narrator has said that abu Ja’far (a.s.) then said, ‘Repenting is enough proof of one’s being regretful.’”

"When a fornicator commits fornication, the spirit of faith departs from him. If he seeks forgiveness, it returns to him." Imam (as) also said that the Messenger of Allah (swt) (peace be upon him and his family) said: "A fornicator does not commit fornication while he is a believer, a drinker does not drink while he is a believer, and a thief does not steal while he is a believer." Abu Jafar Imam Muhammad ibn Ali Al-Baqir (as) further said: "My father (as) used to say: 'When a fornicator commits fornication, the spirit of faith leaves him.'" I asked: "Does any part of faith remain in him, or does it completely leave him?" Imam (as) replied: "No, rather a part of it remains. But when he ceases the act, the spirit of faith returns to him." [BOOK=BOOK ON LEGAL PUNISHMENTS] كِتَابُ الْحُدُودِ

“I heard abu Ja‘far, or it was narrated to me from abu Ja‘far (a.s.)”, -uncertainty is from Ali ibn Ibrahim- “that abu Ja‘far (a.s.), has said, ‘Whoever visits my father in Tus (Iran), Allah forgives his sins of the past and those that comes later on.’ He (the narrator) has said, ‘I then performed al-Hajj after Ziyarat (visit). Thereafter, I met Ayyub ibn Nuh who said to me, ‘Abu Ja‘far, the 2nd (a.s.), has said, “Whoever visits the grave of my father in Tus, Allah forgives his sins of the past and that which come later. Allah builds for his use a pulpit, parallel to those for Muhammad and Ali, ‘Alayhim al-Salam, until He will complete all creatures, accounting.’” I (the narrator) saw him when he already had visited and said, ‘I have come to claim my pulpit.’”

“Once abu Ja’far (a.s.) said, ‘Those who have mixed good deeds with bad deeds’ are a believing people. They create in their belief such things, due to sins, that believing people censure and dislike. They are as such that perhaps Allah may accept their repentance.’”

“Abū Jaʿfar (a) said to me, ‘There is no servant who performs an action that Allah is not pleased with but that Allah initially conceals it [from the people]. If he repeats it a second time, Allah hides it [again], but if he repeats it once more, Allah sends down an angel in the form of a man to tell the people, ‘He did such and such.’”

I heard him say: How beautiful are good deeds after sins! How ugly are sins after good deeds!

`Isa b. Maryam (as) passed by a people who were weeping. So, he said: What are these people weeping over? So, it was said: They are weeping over their sins. He said: Then, they should abandon them, and they will be forgiven.

Abu Abdillah Ja’far ibn Muhammad, peace be upon him told me: "O Abu al-Nu’man, let no people deceive you about yourself, for what is destined will reach you without them. And do not spend your day over petty things, for the One Who records everything is (always) with you. Always do good deeds, for I do not know of quicker recompense for an old sin than the new good deed. Indeed, Allah, Most High has said (in the Qur’an): ’Surely, the good deeds blot out the evil deeds; this is reminder for those who remember.’ (Hood, 11:4)"

Al-Sadiq Ja`far b. Muhammad (as) said: Surely, the servant has an expanse of time between him and forty years of age. Once he reaches forty years of age, Allah reveals to His two angels: “I have allowed My servant to live a life, so coarsen, stiffen, restrain for him; and record the paucity and the abundance of his deeds, and his minor and major sins.

Allah, Most High, revealed to Isa son of Maryam, peace be upon them both: "O Isa, give me tears from your eyes, humility from your heart and line your eyes with the kohl of sorrow, while the idle waste away their days laughing; stand by the graveside and call them loudly, perchance you may thus learn from their fate. And then say: Surely, I will soon be joining them, together with the other joners." And may Allah bless His Prophet, our master Muhammad and his pure progeny.

I asked `Ali b. Musa al-Rida (as) about the middle night of Sha`ban. He said: It is the night in which Allah frees necks from the Fire and forgives major sins. I said: Are there any extra prayers in it that make it differ from the rest of the nights? So, he said: There is nothing in particular, but if you would like to perform a voluntary deed therein, then pray the prayer of Ja`far b. Abi Talib (as), and increase your remembrance of Allah, your repentance, and your supplications therein. For, surely, my father (as) would say: “Supplications therein are answered.” I said to him: The people say that it is the night of ordinance. So, he (as) said: That is the Night of Qadr in the month of Ramadan.

I went to the Mosque of Kufa where I found a man in the seventh row standing in prayer. He was bowing and prostrating in a goodly way. So, I went to look at him, and he prostrated just before I got there. I heard him say in his prostration: “O Allah! If I have ever disobeyed You, [know that] I have obeyed You in the things that are most beloved to You, which is belief in You. I did thusly out of Your grace over me, and not as a favour from me to You. I do not disobey You in the things that are most hateful to You. I did not attribute a son to You, nor did I attribute a partner to You. I did thusly out of Your grace over me, and not as a favour from me to You. I did not disobey You in things out of needlessness or arrogance, nor out of condescension toward Your worship, nor out of denial of Your lordship. Rather, I followed my caprice, and Satan weakened me after comprehensive proof and clarity. If You punished me for my sin, that would not be oppressing me, but if You have mercy over me, it would be by Your magnanimity and Your mercy, O Most Merciful of the merciful ones.” Then, he turned and left through the gate of Kindah. I followed him until he reached the camels of Banu Kalb. So, he passed by a black person and ordered him to do something that I did not understand. So, I said: Who is this? So, he said: This is `Ali b. al-Husayn. So, I said: May Allah make me your sacrifice! What made you come to this place? So, he said: That which you saw.