The Book of Asceticism · Hadith 288 (#Ḥadīth #2)

علي بن النعمان عن ابن مسكان عن أبي حمزة عن يحيى بن عقيل عن حبشي قال: خطب أمير المؤمنين عليه السلام الناس فحمد الله وأثنى عليه وذكر ابن عمه محمدا صلى الله عليه وآله فصلى عليه ثم قال: أما بعد فإنه إنما هلك من كان قبلكم بحيث ما عملوا من المعاصي ولم ينههم الربانيون والأحبار عن ذلك فإنهم لما تمادوا في المعاصي نزلت بهم العقوبات فمر (فأمر) وأبا لمعروف وانهوا عن المنكر واعلموا ان الامر بالمعروف والنهى عن المنكر لا يقربان أجلا ولا يقطعان رزقا فان الامر ينزل من السماء إلى الأرض كقطر المطر إلى كل نفس ما قدر الله من زيادة ونقصان فان أصابت أحدكم مصيبة في أهل ومال ونفس ورآى عند أخيه عقوبة فلا يكونن عليه فتنة ينتظر إحدى الحسنين إما داع إلى الله فما عند الله خير له واما الرزق من الله فإذا هو ذو أهل ومال والبنون لحرث الدنيا والعمل الصالح لحرث الآخرة وقد يجمعهما الله لا قوام.

2.ʿAlī ibn al-Nuʿmān narrated from Ibn Muskān, from Abū Ḥamzah, from Yaḥyā ibn ʿAqīl, from Ḥabashī who said, “Amīr al-Muʾminīn [once] addressed the people. [He started by] praising Allah and glorifying Him, and he remembered his cousin Muḥammad (ṣ) and sent blessings [and salutations] upon him, then he said, ‘Now then, verily those who came before you were only destroyed due to the sins that they committed while their rabbis and scholars did not forbid them from that. Then, when they became excessive in committing sins, punishments descended upon them. So enjoin good and forbid [each other from] evil, and know that enjoining good and forbidding evil neither bring death closer nor do they sever [the means of one’s] livelihood. Indeed, the [divine] command descends from the sky to the earth like drops of rain; to every individual [comes] what is ordained by Allah to increase or decrease. So if any of you is afflicted by a calamity in his family, his wealth, or himself, and sees a punishment[1] brother, then let it not be an ordeal for him. [That is because] he awaits one of two [possible] good outcomes: either a caller from Allah [in the form of death], in which case what is with Allah is better for him, or sustenance from Allah. If he possesses a family, or wealth, or children, that is the tillage of this world, and good deeds are surely the tillage of the Hereafter, and Allah may gather both of these for some groups [thereby granting them the tillage of both this world and the Hereafter].”

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