Al-Kāfi 8, narration 83

Shaykh Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb al-Kulaynī · When a believing man becomes forty years old

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Arabic text

عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي نَجْرَانَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْقَاسِمِ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْمُغِيرَةِ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ سَمِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ إِذَا بَلَغَ الْمُؤْمِنُ أَرْبَعِينَ سَنَةً آمَنَهُ اللَّهُ مِنَ الْأَدْوَاءِ الثَّلَاثَةِ الْبَرَصِ وَ الْجُذَامِ وَ الْجُنُونِ فَإِذَا بَلَغَ الْخَمْسِينَ خَفَّفَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ حِسَابَهُ فَإِذَا بَلَغَ سِتِّينَ سَنَةً رَزَقَهُ اللَّهُ الْإِنَابَةَ فَإِذَا بَلَغَ السَّبْعِينَ أَحَبَّهُ أَهْلُ السَّمَاءِ فَإِذَا بَلَغَ الثَّمَانِينَ أَمَرَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ بِإِثْبَاتِ حَسَنَاتِهِ وَ إِلْقَاءِ سَيِّئَاتِهِ فَإِذَا بَلَغَ التِّسْعِينَ غَفَرَ اللَّهُ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى لَهُ مَا تَقَدَّمَ مِنْ ذَنْبِهِ وَ مَا تَأَخَّرَ وَ كُتِبَ أَسِيرَ اللَّهِ فِي أَرْضِهِ وَ فِي رِوَايَةٍ أُخْرَى فَإِذَا بَلَغَ الْمِائَةَ فَذَلِكَ أَرْذَلُ الْعُمُرِ.

Translation

83. A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ibn Abu Najran, from Muhammad Bin Al-Qasim, from Ali Bin Al-Mugheira, who has said the following: Abu Abdullah (asws) said, ‘I heard him (asws) saying: ‘When the ‘Momin’ (believer) reaches forty years, Allah (azwj) Secures him from three illnesses – the leprosy, and the albinism and the madness. So when he reaches fifty, Allah (azwj) Makes his Accounting to be light. When he reaches sixty years, Allah (azwj) Grants him the repentance. So when he reaches seventy, the inhabitants of the sky love him. So when he reaches eighty, Allah (azwj) Commands to Write down his good deeds and Deletes his bad deeds. So when he reaches ninety, Allah (azwj) Forgives him what has preceded from his Religion and what has been delayed and Writes him down as a prisoner of Allah (azwj) in His (azwj) earth’. And in another report – ‘So when he reaches a hundred, so that is the very (feeble) end of life’.

Translation: Muhammad Sarwar — published with the edition, reproduced verbatim.

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Chain of narration (isnād)

  1. 83. A number of our companions
  2. Ahmad Bin Muhammad
  3. Ibn Abu Najran
  4. Muhammad Bin Al-Qasim
  5. Ali Bin Al-Mugheira, who has said the following: Abu Abdullah (asws) said, ‘I heard him (asws) saying

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Published assessments

  • Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi

    مجهول

    Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (15/261)

  • Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi

    لم يخرجه

    Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

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