Hadith

Imam Jafar ibn Muhammad [a]

1846 sayings · page 36 of 47

1. The last of the Prophets to enter Heaven will be Solomon, because of what he was given in this world.

   Bihar al-Anwar, v. 72, p. 52, no. 76; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 712 · permalink

2. Do you not go to the market? Do you not see the fruit that is sold, and the things that you desire?' al-Khazzaz said, 'Yes.' He (AS) said, 'For everything you see but you cannot [afford to] buy, you receive the reward of a good deed

   Bihar al-Anwar, v. 72, p. 25, no. 19; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 712 · permalink

3. The one to face the severest punishment on the Day of Resurrection will be the man who deposited his sperm in a womb that was forbidden to him.

   Bihar al-Anwar, v. 79, p. 26, no. 28; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 337 · permalink

4. When fornication becomes widespread earthquakes occur as an upshot.

   al-Tahdhib, v. 3, p. 148, no. 318; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 337 · permalink

5. There are five attributes such that whoever does not even possess one of them does not have much to admire: loyalty, organisation, modesty, good temper, and the last which brings together all these attribute is freedom.

   al-Khisal, p. 284, no. 33; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 339 · permalink

6. The free is free in all his states: when he is inflicted by a calamity, he shows patience; when afflictions bear down on him, they do not break him, even though he be taken in captivity or defeated and his prosperity turns into poverty, just like the truthful trustworthy Prophet Joseph - blessings of Allah upon him - whose freedom was not affected even when he was enslaved, defeated and captivated.

   al-Kafi, v. 2, p. 89, no. 6; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 339 · permalink

7. said, interpreting the above verse, 'The witness is the day of Friday, and the witnessed is the day of `Arafa.'

   Ma`ani al-Akhbar, p. 299, no. 2; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 340 · permalink

8. The best and worst of [seeking] fame lands one in the Fire.

   al-Kafi, v. 6, p. 445, no. 3; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 308 · permalink

9. Allah, the Exalted, revealed to Prophet David [Prophet David (AS) is known in the Arabic tradition as Dawud (ed.)] peace be upon him and on our Prophet, 'O David! When My believing servant commits a sin and then returns [to Me] and repents for that sin and is ashamed in My presence every time he remembers it, I will forgive him and cause the recording angels to forget it and change it to count as a good deed, and I will not care about it further, for I am the most Merciful

   Bihar al-Anwar, v. 6, p. 28, no. 30; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 790 · permalink

10. The believer's resentment lasts as long as he is seated [in an assembly], but as soon as he rises it vanishes

    Tuhaf al-`Uqoul, no. 310]; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 792 · permalink

11. It has been narrated in Man La Yahzuruhu al-Faqih that a man once came to Imam al-Sadiq (AS) saying, 'I have a neighbour whose slave girls sing and play the lute, and sometimes when I go to the outhouse I take my time there so I may listen to them ? So Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said to him, 'By Allah! Have you not heard the verse of Allah, Mighty and Exalted, [in the Qur'an], "Verily the hearing and the sight and the heart, each of those shall be answerable for it"?![

    al-Faqih, v. 1, p. 80, no. 177; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 793 · permalink

12. Knowledge is not acquired through learning. Rather it is a light that illuminates in the heart of one who wants Allah, Blessed and most High, to guide him. So if you want knowledge, first seek out within yourself true servitude [to Allah], and seek knowledge according to its use, and ask Allah to make you understand, and He will make you understand.

    Bihar al-Anwar, v. 1, p. 225, no. 17; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 525 · permalink

13. If only there were whips over my companions' heads that they may gain an understanding of the difference between the lawful and the unlawful.

    al-Mahasin, v. 1, p. 358, no. 765; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 527 · permalink

14. The virtue of the earliest opportunity over the latest is as the virtue of the Hereafter over this world's life

    Sawab al-A`amal, p. 58, no. 2; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 724 · permalink

15. Imam al-Sadiq (AS) was once asked why the one who abandons the prayer is considered an infidel and not the fornicator, to which he replied, 'Because the fornicator and other [such sinners] commits the sin out of a desire that overcomes him, whereas the one who abandons the prayer only does so because he does not take it seriously, deeming it insignificant

    Ellal al-Shara'ie, p. 339, no. 1; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 725 · permalink

16. The most beloved of all acts to Allah, Mighty and Exalted, is the prayer, and it is the legacy of the prophets

    al-Faqih, v. 1, p. 210, no. 638; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 715 · permalink

17. Im?m Ja'far ibn Muhammad al-S?diq (a.s.) when asked about the best and most beloved deed to Allah, replied, 'I do not know anything after true knowledge [of Allah] to be better than this prayer. Do you not see that the righteous servant Jesus son of Mary even said, " and he has enjoined me to [establish] the prayer "[

    al-Kafi, v. 3, p. 264, no. 1; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 715 · permalink

18. If there was to be a river outside one's house into which he bathed five times a day, would there remain any dirt on his body? Similarly the prayer is the river which purifies [one's soul] every time one performs a prayer it acts as atonement for one's sins, except for that sin which takes him and keeps away from his faith

    Bihar al-Anwar, v. 82, p. 236, no. 66; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 716 · permalink

19. When Abu Ja`afar and Abu `Aabdillah [i.e. Imam al-Baqir and Imam al-Sadiq (AS)] used to stand to pray, their faces would change colour, sometimes reddening and sometimes paling, and it was as if they were intimately conversing with someone they could see

    Falah al-Sa'il, p. 161; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 719 · permalink

20. Ammar al-Sabati narrated, 'I asked Ab Abdill h (AS) about a man who trades but he can make the same money by working for someone else. He said, 'He should not work for someone else. Rather, he must seek Allah's bounty by trading, for by working for someone else, he restricts Allah's bounty for him.'

    al-Kafi, v. 5, p. 90, no. 3; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 259 · permalink

21. The person guilty of petty sins should not be coveting chiefdom, and neither should the inexperienced person who proudly holds his own opinion be coveting leadership.

    al-Khisal, p. 434, no. 20; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 185 · permalink

22. A fool can never be chief.

    al-Khisal, p. 271, no. 10; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 185 · permalink

23. The prophets have the hardest ordeals from among people, then they scale down according to their piety.

    al-Kafi, v. 2, p. 252, no. 1; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 656 · permalink

24. when he was asked about the believer's trial with leprosy and similar diseases, said, 'Were ordeals reserved for other than the believers?!

    Bihar al-Anwar, v. 67, p. 221, no. 27; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 656 · permalink

25. No more than forty nights can pass on a believer without something that saddens him and causes him to remember [Allah's admonition].

    Bihar al-Anwar, v. 67, p. 211, no. 14; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 659 · permalink

26. When Allah wants good for a servant who commits a sin, He follows it with a punishment and reminds him to ask for forgiveness. But if Allah, wants bad for a servant who commits a sin, He follows it with a favor that makes him forget to ask for forgiveness and continue sinning. This is the meaning of Allah's verse, "We will draw them imperceptibly [into ruin], whence they do not know"81: with favors whenever they sin.

    Bihar al-Anwar, p. 229, no. 41; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 659 · permalink

27. Im?m Ja'far ibn Muhammad al-S?diq (a.s.) said, in the presence of Sadir, 'When Allah loves a servant, He immerses him completely in ordeal. O Sad r! We and you are in it day and night.

    al-Kafi, v. 2, p. 253, no. 6; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 660 · permalink

28. When Allah loves a people, or a certain servant, He pours ordeals down heavily on him, so that whenever he exits from a [source of] anguish he falls into another

    Bihar al-Anwar, v. 82, p. 148, no. 32; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 660 · permalink

29. It is written in the Book of Ali, 'The believer is tested according to the level of his good deeds, so whoever is sound of faith and good deeds, his ordeals are more intense. And that is because Allah, the Exalted, did not make this life a [source of] reward for a believer, nor a [source of] punishment for a disbeliever. However, he whose faith and deeds are weak, his ordeal is also little

    Bihar al-Anwar, v. 67, p. 222, no. 29; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 661 · permalink

30. There is a rank in Paradise which no servant can reach except through suffering harm in his body.

    Bihar al-Anwar, v. 67, p. 212, no. 16; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 662 · permalink

31. Whoever Allah accepts even one prayer from, He will not chastise, and whoever He accepts even one good deed from He will not chastise.

    al-Kafi, v. 3, p. 266, no. 11; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 720 · permalink

32. Allah does not accept a single prayer from one who looks at his parents loathingly, even if they oppress him.

    al-Kafi, v. 2, p. 349, no. 5; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 720 · permalink

33. The tyrants will be the farthest away from Allah on the Day of Judgment

    Wasael al-Shi`aah, v. 11, p. 304, no. 7; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 965 · permalink

34. Only that part of your prayer in which you engaged with your full attention is accepted. So if one is inattentive in all of it or careless in his performance of it, that same prayer is crumpled up and thrown back at his face

    Bihar al-Anwar, v. 84, p. 260, no. 59; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 721 · permalink

35. Whoever performs a two unit prayer fully knowing what he is saying in it, gets up from it with not a single sin left [unforgiven] between him and Allah.

    al-Kafi, v. 3, p. 266, no. 12; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 721 · permalink

36. Abu Basir narrated, 'I went to Humayda, to condole her for the death of Abu `Aabdillah (AS) [i.e. Imam al- Sadiq], so she cried and said, 'O Abu Muhammad, if you saw him as death came upon him, he placed his hand over one eye and said, 'Call my relatives and my friends to come to me.' When everyone had gathered around him, he said, 'Verily our intercession will not avail one who takes his prayer lightly.

    Mustadrak al-Wasa`il, v. 3, p. 25, no. 2923; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 725 · permalink

37. And this is the house by which Allah has demanded the devotion of His creatures to test their obedience in their coming to it, so He prompted them to glorify it and visit it. He made it the station of the prophets and the focal point (qibla) for those who pray to Him. It is a branch of His good pleasure and a way that leads to His forgiveness, founded on absolute perfection and ultimate grandeur.

    Amali al-Saduq, p. 493, no. 4; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 389 · permalink

38. There is no place dearer to Allah, most High, than the mas`aa [place of running between the mounts of al-Safa and al-Marwa in Makkah], for every overbearing person is lowered and debased before Him there.

    Bihar al-Anwar, v. 99. p. 45, no. 34; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 389 · permalink

39. He who goes to perform the obligatory pilgrimage (Hajj) three times will never be afflicted with poverty.

    al-Khisal, p. 117, no. 101; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 389 · permalink

40. I have never seen anything faster at attracting wealth and at repelling poverty than habitual pilgrimage (Hajj) to this house.

    Amali al-Tusi, p. 694, no. 1478; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 389 · permalink

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