Shaykh Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Ṣaduq · The Merits of Shaʿbān
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حدثنا أحمد بن زياد بن جعفر الهمداني رحمه الله، قال: حدثنا علي بن إبراهيم بن هاشم، قال: حدثنا جعفر بن سلمة الأهوازي، قال: حدثنا إبراهيم بن محمد الثقفي، قال: أخبرنا إبراهيم بن ميمون، قال: حدثنا عنه (عليه السلام): صوم شعبان كفارة الذنوب العظام حتى لو أن رجلاً بلي بدم حرام فصام من هذا الشهر أياماً ومات رجوت له المغفرة، قال: قلت: فما أفضل الدعاء في هذا الشهر؟ فقال: الاستغفار، إن من استغفر في شعبان كل يوم سبعين مرة كان كمن استغفر في غيره من الشهور سبعين الف مرة، قلت: فكيف أقول؟ قال: قل: استغفر الله واسأله التوبة.
Aḥmad b. Ziyād b. Jaʿfar al-Hamadānī (rh) narrated to us, saying that ʿAlī b. Ibrāhīm b. Hāshim narrated to him, among others, saying that Jaʿfar b. Salama al-Ahwāzī narrated to him, among others, saying that Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad al-Thaqafī narrated to him, among others, saying that Ibrāhīm b. Maymūn informed him, among others, saying that the Imām (as) narrated to him, among others, saying: “Fasting in Shaʿbān is expiation for cardinal sins, such that even if a man were to shed blood that was forbidden to shed and then fast in this month a few days, he would die with the hope of attaining forgiveness.” Ibrāhīm b. Maymūn narrated that he asked the Imam: “What is the best supplication in this month?,” so he replied: “(That of) forgiveness, for whoever seeks forgiveness during Shaʿbān seventy times every day, it will be as if he had sought forgiveness seventy thousand times had it been a different month.” Ibn Maymūn asked one last question: “How do I do that?,” so the Imam said: “(Say:) “I seek forgiveness from Allāh and I ask Him for repentance (to be accepted).”
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