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9 Rabi al-Thani 1448Maghrib

Hadith

Reward

14 sayings

  1. Allah [swt] said

    "...therefore whoever hopes to meet his Lord, he should do good deeds, and not join anyone in the service of his Lord."

    Greater Sins Vol 1, Part 3, page 77; Surah Kahf 18:110 link

  2. Imam Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali [a] said

    The reward for your work is better than your work itself

    Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 4688; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 800 link

  3. Imam Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali [a] said

    The reward of the Hereafter causes one to forget the toil of this world

    Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 4692; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 800 link

  4. Imam Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali [a] said

    Allah, the Exalted, decreed reward for obeying Him and chastisement for disobeying Him, in order to protect His servants against His wrath and to herd them to His Paradise

    Nahj al-Balagha, Saying 368; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 801 link

  5. Imam Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali [a] said

    The reward for any work is proportionate to the toil of performing it

    Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 4690; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 801 link

  6. Imam Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali [a] said

    The reward for jihad is the greatest reward

    Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 4695; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 801 link

  7. Imam Sadiq (as.) said

    "One who performs a deed after he comes to know its reward will get that reward although the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.s.) has said nothing about it."

    Sawab al-A`amal, Page 177 link

  8. Imam Sadiq (as.) said

    "One who says a true thing and people follow it will also get the reward of people who performed that deed. One who says a false thing and people follow it, he too will get the punishment for the wrong deed performed by those people."

    Sawab al-A`amal, Page 178 link

  9. Imam Baqir [a] said

    "One who enlivens a good Sunnah among people he too gets the reward of people performing that deed and the reward of those people will not diminish. One who starts a wrong practice among the people will get the punishment equal to that of the people following that wrong practice while the punishment of those people won't be reduced."

    Sawab al-A`amal, Page 178 link

  10. Imam Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali [a] said

    There are two things the reward for which is beyond measure: pardon and justice.

    Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 5769; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 801 link

  11. Imam Baqir [a] said

    If a man hears about Allah's reward for a particular action, and subsequently performs it in order to attain that reward, he will receive it even if the actual report was contrary to what he had heard

    al-Kafi, v. 2, p. 87, no. 2; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 801 link

  12. Imam Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali [a] said

    The greatest reward is the reward [dealt] by fairness

    Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 3387; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 801 link

  13. Imam Sadiq (as.) said

    Imam Ja'far Sadiq (a.s.) narrates from his predecessors that the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.s.) said, "The deed that is rewarded soon is a good action and the deed punished soon is injustice. The deed is bad enough when a person sees faults in others but is blind as far as his self is concerned and he advises people to avoid sins but does not avoid them himself and if he troubles with useless talk those who sit with him."

    Sawab al-A`amal, Page 216 link

  14. The Holy Prophet [s] said

    In the Resurrection, a caller will call out, saying, "whoever has done something for anyone other than God, should ask him for reward".

    Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1056; Page No. 149 link

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