Hadith 204

id: ‘The Momin, when he yields to the sins, is Afflicted due to it with the poor, for that would be an expiation in that due to his sins, or else he is afflicted with the illness. Either that would be an expiation for his sins or else with the fear from the ruling authority seeking him. Either that would be an expiation for his sins or else there will be narrowness upon him at the exiting of his soul, until he meets Allah-azwj when he meets Him-azwj and there will be no sin for him to be claimed upon him, so he will be Commanded with to the Paradise, and that the Kafir and the hypocrite, the exiting of their souls would be eased upon them, until they meet Allah-azwj when they meet Him-azwj, and there will not be in His-azwj Presence for them any good deed they can be claiming upon. So He-azwj will Command with them to the Fire’’. [127]
And from him-asws having said: ‘Every time the servant increases the Eman, there will be a narrowness in his livelihood’’. [128]
(The book) ‘Bashaarat Al Mustafa’ – from Ibn Sheykh Al Taifa, from his father, from Al Mufeed, from Zayd Bin Muhammad Al Sulamy, from Al-Husayn Bin Al Hakam Al Kindy, from Ismail Bin Sabeeh, from Khalid Bin Al A’ala, from Al Minhal Bin Amro who said, ‘I was seated with Muhammad-asws Bin Ali Al-Baqir-asws when a man came over. So he greeted upon him, and he-asws returned the greeting. The man said, ‘How are you-asws? ’ Muhammad-asws said to him: ‘And what does it mean to you all if you come to know how we-asws are? But rather, our-asws example in this community is an example of the Children of Israel. Their sons were slaughtered, and their women were kept alive. Indeed! They are slaughtering our-asws sons and keeping our-asws womenfolk alive. The Arabs claimed that there is merit for them upon the non-Arabs. So the non-Arabs said, ‘And by what is that (merit)? ’ They said, ‘Muhammad-saww was from us, an Arab’. They said to them, ‘You speak the truth’. And the Qureysh claimed that for it was a merit upon the others from the Arabs. So the Arabs from the others said to them, ‘And by what is that (merit)? ’ They said, ‘Muhammad-saww was Qureysh’. They said, ‘You speak the truth’. And if it was so that they people were speaking the truth, then for us-asws there is merit upon the people because we-asws are the children of Muhammad-saww, and are the People-asws of his‑saww Household in particular, and are his-saww family. There is no participation in that with us-asws from the others’. The man said to him-asws, ‘By Allah-azwj! I love you all, the People-asws of the Household! ’
He-asws said: ‘So take the afflictions as a robe, for by Allah-azwj, it is quicker to us-asws and to our-asws Shias than the flow of the water in the valley, and with us-asws the afflictions begin, then with you all, and with us-asws the ease begins, then with you all! ’’[129]