Hadith 129

(The book) ‘Nahj Al Balagah’ –
‘It is reported that Shureyh Bin Al-Haris, a judge of Amir Al-Momineen-asws had bought a house in his-asws era for eighty Dinars. That reached him-asws and he-asws summoned him and said to him: ‘It has reached me-asws that you have bought a house for eighty Dinars and have written a deed and made witness to witness in it? ’ Shureyh said to him-asws, ‘That has happened, O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! ’
He-asws looked at him with an angry look, then said: ‘O Shureyh! But there will be coming to you one (Angel of death) who will neither look into your agreement nor ask you about your house until he extracts you from it personally and submit you to your grave sincerely. Therefore consider, O Shurayh, that you did not happen to have bought this house from other than your wealth or paid the price from other than your permissible means, for then you would have incurred a loss in the house of the world and the house of the Hereafter. As for you, if you had come to me-asws regarding your acquisition, I-asws would have written out an agreement for you upon this copy, and you would not have bought this house even for one Dirham nor above it, and the copy is this: –
‘This is what is acquired by a humble servant from a deceased who has saddled up for the departure, buying from him a house from the houses of deceit from a side of the perishing ones, and a boundary of the destroyed ones; and the total boundaries of the house are four – the first boundary ends at calling to the calamities, and the second boundary ends at calling to the difficulties, and the third boundary ends to defiant personal desires, and the fourth boundary ends to the deviating Satan-la, and in it begins the door of this house. This house is being bought by one deceived by long hopes from this one disturbed by the death from this house, by exiting from the honour or contentment and the entering into the humiliation of the seeking (more) and the disgrace. So, whatever the buyer comes across regarding what he has bought from your house, it would be upon the Dismantler of the bodies of the kings and Confiscator of the souls of the tyrants, and Remover of the kingdoms of the Pharaohs-la like Chosroe, and Caesar, and Tubba, and Himeyr (kings of Yemen), and the ones who amass wealth upon wealth, so it becomes more, and the one who builds and elevates, and decorates and renews, and hoards. And he believes and considers, by his allegation, to be for the children taking them all to the pausing of the display and the accounting, and the place of the Rewards, when the Command will occur with decisiveness of the Judgment, and over there the falsifiers would lose out. The intellect has testified (witnessed this agreement) upon that when it comes out from the prison of the personal desires and is safe from the shackles of the world’’. [90]