Good Relation with Relatives — report 4

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hadith

ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

4ـ وَعَنْهُ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَكَمِ عَنْ خَطَّابٍ الأعْوَرِ عَنْ أَبِي حَمْزَةَ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) صِلَةُ الأرْحَامِ تُزَكِّي الأعْمَالَ وَتُنْمِي الأمْوَالَ وَتَدْفَعُ الْبَلْوَى وَتُيَسِّرُ الْحِسَابَ وَتُنْسِئُ فِي الأجَلِ.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

4. It is narrated from him (narrator of the Hadith above) from Ali ibn al-Hakam from Khattab al-A’War from abu Hamza who has said the following: “Abu Ja’far عليه السلام has said, ‘Having good relations with relatives cleanses ones deeds, increases ones wealth, repulses misfortunes, makes reckoning easier and delays the coming of death.’”

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 2, book 1, chapter 68, report 4

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · مجهول · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (8/363)

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

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Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/2/1/68/4. 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.