عَنْهُ عَنْ بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِهِ رَفَعَهُ قَالَ
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قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع كَمْ مِنْ طَالِبٍ لِلدُّنْيَا لَمْ يُدْرِكْهَا وَ مُدْرِكٍ لَهَا قَدْ فَارَقَهَا فَلَا يَشْغَلَنَّكَ طَلَبُهَا عَنْ عَمَلِكَ وَ الْتَمِسْهَا مِنْ مُعْطِيهَا وَ مَالِكِهَا فَكَمْ مِنْ حَرِيصٍ عَلَى الدُّنْيَا قَدْ صَرَعَتْهُ وَ اشْتَغَلَ بِمَا أَدْرَكَ مِنْهَا عَنْ طَلَبِ آخِرَتِهِ حَتَّى فَنِيَ عُمُرُهُ وَ أَدْرَكَهُ أَجَلُهُ. - وَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع الْمَسْجُونُ مَنْ سَجَنَتْهُ دُنْيَاهُ عَنْ آخِرَتِهِ.
Read English translationHide English translationMuhammad Sarwar — attributed by Thaqalayn
9. It is narrated from him (narrator of the Hadith above) from certain individuals of his people in a marfu’ manner from Abu ‘Abdillah (a.s.) who has said the following: “How many are those who seek worldly gains but can not achieve them and how many are those who had achieved worldly gains but have already departed them! Do not allow your seeking worldly gains prevent you from good deeds. You must request worldly gains from the One Who grants them and is the owner of the same. How many were those who were greedy of the worldly gains that were destroyed and whose preoccupation in them prevented them from seeking the gains of the next life until their lives finished and the appointed time approached them! “Abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.) has said, ‘A prisoner is one whose worldly affairs imprison him so he cannot do anything for his next life.’”
Translation: Muhammad Sarwar — attributed by Thaqalayn·The Arabic above is the original.
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1- مرفوعAllamah Baqir al-MajlisiMirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (1/363)