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Shia hadith/Kitāb al-Zuhd 1

Kitāb al-Zuhd 1, record 172 of the digital edition

Ḥusayn b. Saʿīd al-Ahwāzī · Showing off, Hypocrisy, Self-Admiration, and Conceit

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Arabic text

النضر عن درست عن بعض أصحابه عن أبي عبد الله عليه السلام قال: إن الله بعث ملكين إلى أهل مدينة ليقلباها على أهلها فلما انتهيا إلى المدينة وجدا رجلا يدعو الله ويتضرع إليه فقال أحدهما للاخر: إما ترى هذا الداعي فقال قد رأيته ولكن أمضى لما أمرني به ربى فقال: ولكني لا أحدث شيئا حتى ارجع إلى ربى فعاد * إلى الله تبارك وتعالى فقال: يا رب انى انتهيت إلى المدينة فوجدت عبدك فلانا يدعوك ويتضرع إليك فقال: امض لما أمرتك فان ذلك الرجل لم يتغير وجهه غضبا لي قط.

Translation

6.Al-Naḍr narrated from Durust, from one of our companions, from Abū ʿAbdillāh (a) who said, “Verily Allah sent two angels to the people of a city in order to overturn it upon its inhabitants. When they arrived at the city, they found a man supplicating to Allah and beseeching Him. So one of them told the other, ‘Do you not see this supplicant?’ He replied, ‘I see him, but I will proceed to do as my Lord has commanded me.’ ‘I, on the other hand, will not do anything before returning to my Lord [and asking about the man],’ said the first angel. So he returned to Allah, the Blessed and Exalted, and said, ‘My Lord, I went to the city and found Your servant so-and-so supplicating to You and beseeching You.’ He said, ‘Do as I have commanded you, for indeed that man’s face has never changed out of anger for My sake, ever.’”

Translation: Shaykh Tahir Ridha Jaffer — published with the edition, reproduced verbatim.

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