Shaykh Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb al-Kulaynī · The Virtue of Benevolent Assistance
3ـ عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى وَأَحْمَدَ بْنِ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله جَمِيعاً عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ عَنْ سَعْدَانَ بْنِ مُسْلِمٍ عَنْ أَبِي يَقْظَانَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَم) قَالَ رَأَيْتُ الْمَعْرُوفَ كَاسْمِهِ وَلَيْسَ شَيْءٌ أَفْضَلَ مِنَ الْمَعْرُوفِ إِلاَّ ثَوَابُهُ وَذَلِكَ يُرَادُ مِنْهُ وَلَيْسَ كُلُّ مَنْ يُحِبُّ أَنْ يَصْنَعَ الْمَعْرُوفَ إِلَى النَّاسِ يَصْنَعُهُ وَلَيْسَ كُلُّ مَنْ يَرْغَبُ فِيهِ يَقْدِرُ عَلَيْهِ وَلا كُلُّ مَنْ يَقْدِرُ عَلَيْهِ يُؤْذَنُ لَهُ فِيهِ فَإِذَا اجْتَمَعَتِ الرَّغْبَةُ وَالْقُدْرَةُ وَالإِذْنُ فَهُنَالِكَ تَمَّتِ السَّعَادَةُ لِلطَّالِبِ وَالْمَطْلُوبِ إِلَيْهِ. وَرَوَاهُ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله عَنِ ابْنِ فَضَّالٍ عَنْ أَبِي جَمِيلَةَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ مَرْوَانَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَم) مِثْلَهُ.
3. A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn ‘Isa and Ahmad ibn abu ‘Abd Allah all from Muhammad ibn Khalid from Sa‘dan ibn Muslim from abu Yaqzan who has said the following: “Abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), has said, ‘I see Benevolent Assistance (maʿrūf) is just as good as its name. No other thing is better than providing Benevolent Assistance except the reward that awaits it, and that is what is intended thereby. Not everyone who desires to provide Benevolent Assistance actually carries it out. Not everyone who desires to provide Benevolent Assistance has the ability to do so, and not everyone who desires to provide Benevolent Assistance has permission to do so. When all three conditions - the desire, the ability and permission - to provide Benevolent Assistance come together, (only) then complete happiness is attained for both the one seeking to do good and the one to whom it is done.” (Ahmad ibn ‘Abd Allah has narrated from ibn Faddal from abu Jamilah from Muhammad ibn Marwan from abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), a similar Hadith.)
Translation: Muhammad Sarwar — published with the edition, reproduced verbatim.
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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi
مجهول وسنده الثاني ضعيف
Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (16/154)
Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi
صحيح
Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 2, p. 48
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