Good Relation with Relatives — report 21

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hadith

ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

21ـ عَنْهُ عَنْ غَيْرِ وَاحِدٍ عَنْ زِيَادٍ الْقَنْدِيِّ عَنْ عَبْدِ الله بْنِ سِنَانٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ الله (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وآلِه) إِنَّ الْقَوْمَ لَيَكُونُونَ فَجَرَةً وَلا يَكُونُونَ بَرَرَةً فَيَصِلُونَ أَرْحَامَهُمْ فَتَنْمِي أَمْوَالُهُمْ وَتَطُولُ أَعْمَارُهُمْ فَكَيْفَ إِذَا كَانُوا أَبْرَاراً بَرَرَةً.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

21. It is narrated from him (narrator of the Hadith above) from more than one person from Ziyad al-Qandy from ‘Abd Allah ibn Sinan from Abu ‘Abdillah عليه السلام who has said the following: “The Messenger of Allah has said, ‘A people who are evil doers and not of the virtuous ones but maintain good relations with relatives, their wealth increases, and they live longer. Can one imagine their benefits had they been virtuous and of good deeds?”’

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 2, book 1, chapter 68, report 21

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · مرسل كالموثق · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (8/380)

Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi · لم يخرجه · Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

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Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/2/1/68/21. Al-Kafi by al-Kulayni. English translation attributed by the digital catalogue to Muhammad Sarwar. CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. No endorsement implied.