Holding in One ’s Arm

1. Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Muhammad ibn al-Husayn from Muhammad ibn Isma’il ibn Bazi’ from Salih ibn ‘Aqabah from ‘Abd Allah ibn Muhammad al-Ju’fi from abu Ja’far and Abu ‘Abdillah (a.s.) who has said the following: “Any believer who leaves (his home) to visit his brother (in belief) because of his knowledge of the importance of such person, Allah writes for him, for every step, one good deed, deletes one evil deed, and raises him one degree in meritorious status. When he knocks at his door, the doors to heaven open to him. When they meet, shake hands and hold each other in their arm Allah turns to them with His face and expresses pride because of them to the angels and says, ‘Look at My two servants who are visiting each other and love each other for My sake. It is a right upon Me not to make them suffer in fire in the hereafter. When he returns the angels, numbering equal to the number of his breaths, steps and words, will escort him. They protect him against the misfortunes of this world and the hardships of the hereafter up to a similar night next year. If he dies in between he will be exempt from presenting an account of his deeds. If the person visited would know the importance of the visitor as he knew of his importance, he also will have the same privileges.”

Translation: Muhammad Sarwar — attributed by Thaqalayn·The Arabic above is the original.

79. A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Al-Hassan Bin Mahboub, from Ali Bin Ra’ib, from Abu Ubeyda Al-Haza’a, from Suweyr Bin Abu Fakhta who said: I heard Ali (asws) Bin Al-Husayn (asws) narrating in the Masjid of the Rasool (saww) Allah (azwj) saying: ‘Narrated to me (asws) by my (asws) father (asws), and he (asws) heard it from his (asws) father (asws) Ali (asws) Bin Abu Talib (asws) narrating to the people saying: ‘When it will be the Day of Judgement, Allah (azwj) will Resurrect the people from their graves in their isolation, without beards, in one plane, being driven by the light, and Gather them in the darkness until they are paused upon the hurdle on the Place of Resurrection. So, some of them will climb upon the others, becoming over crowded. They will be prevented from passing. Their breathing will be heavy and they will sweat profusely, and their affairs would be constricted, their noises would intensify, and their voices would be raised. He (asws) said: ‘This will be the first sensation from the sensations of the Day of Judgement’. He (asws) said: ‘The Compeller (azwj) Blessed and High will Attend to them from above His (azwj) Throne in the shadow of the Angels, so He (azwj) Command an Angel from the Angels who would call out among them: ‘O group of creatures! Listen, and listen intently to the Caller of the Compeller (azwj)’. He (asws) said: ‘So the last of them would hear it just as the first of them’. He (asws) said: ‘Their voices would break up due to that, and they will anxiously look around and their body parts would become restless, and their hearts would be in a panic, and they will be raising their heads towards the direction of the voice hastening to the Caller’. He (asws) said: ‘So when that happens, the Infidel would say, ‘This is a difficult day’. He (asws) said: ‘So the Compeller (azwj) Mighty and Majestic would Attend to be the Judge over them, so He (azwj) will Say to them: “I (azwj) am Allah (azwj). There is no god except for Me (azwj). I (azwj) am the Equitable Judge Whom will not Let any injustice be done today. I (azwj) Shall Judge between you all with Justice and Equity. No one will be done injustice in My (azwj) Presence today. I (azwj) shall Take the rights for weak ones from the strong ones and for those who have suffered injustices will be retaliation from the good deeds and the sins as compensation and be Rewarded for the gifts. And no one will be Permitted today in My (azwj) Presence, as an unjust one or one to whom injustice has been done except if he waives his right against the other one, and I (azwj) shall Take from him (the unjust one) during the Accounting correlated. O you creatures! And seek what is due to you from the one who was unjust to you for it in the world, and I (azwj) am a Witness for you against them, and I (azwj) am sufficient as a Witness’. He (asws) said: ‘So they will recognise each other and seize the opportunity. So not one would remain for whom there would be anything from the unjust one any right except that he would claim for it’. He (asws) said: ‘So they would do that for as long as Allah (azwj) so Desires. Their condition would become difficult, and they will sweat profusely, and their grief would intensify, and they would be raising their voices by intense noise. So they would wish to be finished from it by letting go of their rights and not bother to claim for it from the unjust ones’. He (asws) said: ‘And Allah (azwj) would Know of their struggles, so a Caller would Call out from the Presence of Allah (azwj) Blessed and High which the last of them would hear as well as the first of them: ‘O group of creatures, listen intently to the Caller of Allah (azwj) Blessed and High, and listen to what Allah (azwj) Blessed and High is Saying to you all: ‘I (azwj) Am the Bestower and would Love it if you would gift (forego) each other and if you do not then I (azwj) will Take it for you from the one who was unjust to you’. He (asws) said: ‘So they would become happy with that due to their difficult struggles, and constriction, and their behaviour and contention’. He (asws) said: ‘So some of them would forego their rights in the hope that it would finish them from the situation that they would be in, and there would remain some of them who would say, ‘O Lord (azwj), our rights are greater than us being able to forego them’. He (asws) said: ‘So a Caller would Call out from beside the Throne: ‘Where is Rizwaan, the keeper of the Gardens of Al-Firdows?’ He (asws) said: ‘So Allah (azwj) Mighty and Majestic will Command him to display from Al-Firdows a castle of silver with whatever is inside it from the construction and the servants’. He (asws) said: ‘The butlers and the servants would be seen on the grounds of the castle’. He (asws) said: ‘So a Caller would Call out from the Presence of Allah (azwj) Blessed and High: “O group of creatures! Raise your heads and look at this castle’. He (asws) said: ‘So they will be raising their heads, and each one of them would wish for it’. He (asws) said: ‘So a Caller will Call out from the Presence of Allah (azwj): “O group of creatures! This is for every one forgives a Believer’. He (asws) said: ‘So all of them would be forgiving except for a few’. He (asws) said: ‘So Allah (azwj) Mighty and Majestic will Say: “There is no Permission to My (azwj) Paradise today for the unjust one, and there is no Permission today to the Fire today for the one who was oppressed, or anyone from the Muslims who has in his possession somebody’s rights until it will be Taken from him during the Accounting. O you creatures! Be prepared for the Accounting’. He (asws) said: ‘Then their way would be cleared for them, so they will be moving to the next stage preparing one another until they end up at the Plains, and the Compeller (azwj) Blessed and High would be upon the Throne. The registers (of deeds) would have been published, the scales set, and the Prophets (as), and the witnesses (asws), and these would be the Imams (asws) would be present. Each Imam (asws) testifying over the people of his (asws) era, having stood among them by the Command of Allah (azwj) Mighty and Majestic, and called them to the Way of Allah (azwj)’. He (asws) said: ‘So a man from Qureish said to him (asws), ‘O son (asws) of the Rasool (saww) Allah (azwj), if there is a Believing man who has a claim against an infidel man, which thing would be taken from the infidel, and he is from the inhabitants of the Fire?’ He (asws) said: ‘Ali (asws) Bin Al-Husayn (asws) said to him: ‘The sins of the Muslim would be taken from him in accordance with what is due to him from the infidel, so the infidel would be Punished by it along with his Punishment for his infidelity in accordance with what was for the Muslim before that right’. He (asws) said: ‘So the Qureishi said to him (asws), ‘So if there was a right for a Muslim against a Muslim, how would it be taken from a Muslim?’ He (asws) said: ‘The good deeds would be taken for the oppressed against the oppressor in accordance with the right of the oppressed and it would increase the good deeds of the oppressed one’. He (asws) said: ‘The Qureishi said to him (asws): ‘If the oppressor does not have any good deeds to his credit?’ He (asws) said: ‘If the oppressor does not have any good deeds to his credit, the sins of the oppressed would be taken from him so it would increase the sins of the oppressor’.

Translation: Muhammad Sarwar — attributed by Thaqalayn·The Arabic above is the original.

2. Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father from Safwan ibn Y ahya from Ishaq ibn ‘Ammar from Abu ‘Abdillah (a.s.) who has said the following: “When two believing people embrace each other, blessings engulf them. When they hold each other just for the sake of Allah and for no worldly reasons, it then will be said to them, ‘You are forgiven, resume your deeds.’ When they begin asking about each other the angels will say to each other, ‘Keep away from them; they have secret matters and Allah has granted them cover and privacy.’ I (Ishaq) then asked, ‘May Allah keep my soul in service for your cause, how is it that the angels do not write their words when Allah, the Most Majestic, the Most Holy, has said, “. . . he does not utter a word which is not recorded immediately by the watchful scribes”?’ (50: 17) The narrator has said that Abu ‘Abdillah (a.s.) took a breath of sigh and wept so much that his tears drenched his beard, and he said, ‘O Ishaq, Allah, the Most Blessed, the Most High, commands the angels to leave the believing people who meet each other alone just because of respect for them; otherwise, if the angels do not write their words or do not know them, He knows and saves them; He knows all the secrets and the hidden things.’”

Translation: Muhammad Sarwar — attributed by Thaqalayn·The Arabic above is the original.