Hadith 117

ressed and helping him in the sorrows. The people of Al-Kufa mentioned that Saeed Bin Qays Al-Hamdany saw him-asws one day in the yard of a garden. He said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws at this time? ’ He-asws said: ‘I-asws did not come out except to aid an oppressed or help a sorrowful’. While he-asws was like than when a woman came to him-asws. Her heart was vacant. She did not know where to go from the world until she paused to him-asws and said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! My husband has been unjust to me and has exceeded upon me, and he has vowed that he will hit me, so come with me to him’. He-asws lowered his-asws head, then raised it and he-asws was saying: ‘Until he-asws takes for the oppressed his right without hesitation. And where is your house? ’ She said, ‘In such and such place’. He-asws went with her until he-asws ended up to her house. She said, ‘This is my house’. He said, ‘He-asws greeted, and a youth came out, upon him being a coloured trouser. He-asws said: ‘Fear Allah-azwj, for you have scared your wife’. He said, ‘What is it to you-asws and that? By Allah-azwj! I will burn her with the fire for your-asws talk’. He said, ‘And it was so that whenever he-asws went to any place, he-asws would take the whip in his-asws hand and the sword would be hanging beneath his-asws hand. So, the one upon whom the ruling was permission with the whip, he-asws would hit him, and one upon whom the ruling would be permissible with the sword, would respite him. The youth did not know except and he-asws had unsheathed the sword, and he-asws said to him: ‘I-asws enjoin you with the goodness and forbid you from the evil, and you will either return to the good repenting or else I-asws will kill you’. He said, ‘And the people came from the markets asking about Amir Al-Momineen-asws until they paused to him-asws. The youth regretted in his-asws hand and said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! Pardon me, may Allah-azwj Pardon you-asws. By Allah-azwj! I shall become pleasing voluntarily’. He-asws instructed her with entering to her house, and he-asws left and he-asws was saying: ‘There is no good in a lot of their secret counsels except the one who instructs with the charities, or an act of kindness, or reconciling between the people. The Praise is for Allah-azwj who Reconciled between a wife and her husband. Allah-azwj Blessed and Exalted is Saying: There is no good in most of their secret counsels except of the one who either enjoins charity, or goodness, or reconciliation between people; and the one who does this seeking the Pleasure of Allah, so We shall soon Give him a mighty Recompense [4: 114]’. Then the chivalry, and chastity of the belly and the private parts, and correcting the wealth. Have you seen anyone strike the mountain with the pickaxe, so there came out from it like the neck of a camel (gold). Every time it came out, he-asws said: ‘Give glad tidings to the inheritor’. Then then was a change of mind for him-asws and he-asws made it to be a decisive charity unto Allah-azwj would Cause the earth and the ones upon it to be inherited in order to turn away the fires from his-asws face and he-asws turned his-asws face away from the fire. It isn’t for anyone from the inhabitants of the earth that they would shake from the vegetation, a s