Hadith 111

(The book) ‘Nahj Al-Balagah’ – And from a letter of his to Usman Bin Huneyf Al-Ansari, and he was his-asws office bearer upon Al-Basra, and it had reached him-asws that he had been invited to a wedding feast of a people from its inhabitants, so he had gone to it: ‘As for after, O Ibn Huneyf! It has reached me-asws that a man from the youths of the people of Al-Basra had invited you to a meal and you hurried to it. He prepared a variety for you and moved towards you the trays, and I-asws did not think that you would answer to a man of a people, their poor are barred and their rich ones are invited. Look at what you eat from this meal. Whatever its knowledge is suspicious to you, leave it and whatever its perspective (earning) is good, take from it. Indeed! And for every follower there is an imam he models with and is illuminated by the light of his knowledge. Indeed! And your Imam-asws has sufficed from his-asws world with two rags and from his-asws meal with two discs (of bread). ‘Indeed! And you all are not able upon that, but assist me-asws with devoutness, and struggle, and chastity, and uprightness. By Allah-azwj! I-asws have not hoarded from your world any gold nor have I-asws hoarded any plentiful share from its booties, nor have I-asws prepared any clothes (other than) two rags, nor do I-asws possess even a palm’s width from its land, nor have I-asws taken from it except light/little subsistence. A female donkey, and it is weak in my-asws eyes and more disgraceful than a gall oak for a residence. But, there used to be Fadak in our hands, from all what the sky shaded, but souls of a group of people were greedy upon it, and souls of another group were filthy about it, and the best judge is Allah-azwj. And what shall I-asws do with Fadak and other than Fadak, and the self would be in its manifestations tomorrow (in the grave). Its traces would be terminated in his darkness, and its news would disappear, and it is such a pit, if it is increased in its capacity and expanded by the hand of its differ, the stones and the much would collapse and the accumulated soil would fill its gaps. And rather, I-asws am preparing my-asws self by presenting it with the piety for it would be given security on the Day of the great fear and would be firm upon the slippery sides. And if I-asws so desire, I-asws can lead to the path, to this clear honey, and the finen