Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 4-2318b
"عَنِ الْحَسِنِ بْنِ عَلِىٍّ قَالَ: قَال أَبِى عَلِىُّ بْن أَبِى طَالِبٍ: أَىْ بُنَىَّ لَا تُخْلِفَنَّ وَرَاءَكَ شَيْئًا مِنَ الدُّنْيَا، فَإِنَّكَ تَخْلِفُهُ لأَحَدِ رَجُلَيْن: إِمَّا رَجُلٌ عَمِلَ فِيهِ بِطَاعَةِ اللهِ فَسَعِدَ بِما شَقَيتَ بِهِ وَإِمَّا رَجُلٌ عَمِلَ فِيهِ بِمَعْصِيَةِ اللهِ، فَكُنْتَ عَوْنًا لَهُ عَلَى ذلِكَ، وَلَيْسَ أَحَدُ هَذَيْنِ بِحَقيقٍ أَنْ تُؤْثرَهُ عَلَى نَفْسِكَ".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- al-Ḥasin b. ʿAli
Machine translation, not reviewed
"From al-Hasan ibn 'Ali who said: My father 'Ali ibn Abi Talib said: O my son, do not leave behind you anything of this world, for you will leave it to one of two men: either a man who will work with it in obedience to Allah, so he will be happy with what you were miserable over, or a man who will work with it in disobedience to Allah, so you would have been a helper to him in that. Neither of these two is worthy that you prefer him over yourself."
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Notes
[كر] ابن عساكر في تاريخه
machine translation[Kar] Ibn ʿAsākir, in his Tārīkh.
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