Assisting a Believer in his Needs — report 11

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11ـ عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ خَلَفِ بْنِ حَمَّادٍ عَنْ بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِهِ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) قَالَ وَالله لأنْ أَحُجَّ حَجَّةً أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ مِنْ أَنْ أُعْتِقَ رَقَبَةً وَرَقَبَةً وَرَقَبَةً وَمِثْلَهَا وَمِثْلَهَا حَتَّى بَلَغَ عَشْراً وَمِثْلَهَا وَمِثْلَهَا حَتَّى بَلَغَ السَّبْعِينَ وَلأنْ أَعُولَ أَهْلَ بَيْتٍ مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ أَسُدَّ جَوْعَتَهُمْ وَأَكْسُوَ عَوْرَتَهُمْ فَأَكُفَّ وُجُوهَهُمْ عَنِ النَّاسِ أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ مِنْ أَنْ أَحُجَّ حَجَّةً وَحَجَّةً وَحَجَّةً وَمِثْلَهَا وَمِثْلَهَا حَتَّى بَلَغَ عَشْراً وَمِثْلَهَا وَمِثْلَهَا حَتَّى بَلَغَ السَّبْعِينَ.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

11. A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Khalid from his father from Khalaf ibn Hammad from certain individuals of his people from abu Ja’far عليه السلام who has said the following: “By Allah, performing one Hajj is more beloved to me than setting free of ten slaves and up to seventy slaves. If I look after a Muslim family, satisfy their hunger and clothe them to safeguard their dignity among the people it is more beloved to me than to perform Hajj ten times and so on up to seventy Hajj.”

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 2, book 1, chapter 83, report 11

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Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/2/1/83/11. 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.