Hadith 132

(The book) ‘Al Kafi’ – And by this chain, from Ali Bin Asbaat, from the one who reported it, ‘From Abu Abdullah-asws, having said, ‘There was a piece of land between me-asws and a man, and the man was an astrologer, and he used to determine the lucky time so he would go out in it, and he determined for me-asws an inauspicious time to go out in. We divided (our profits), and the better half came out for me-asws. The man struck his right hand upon the left, then said, ‘I have not seen a day like today at all! ’ I said, ‘Woe be unto others, and what is that? ’ He said, ‘I am an astrologer. I made you-asws come out in the inauspicious time, and I went out during a lucky time. Then we divided (our profits), so the better of the two divisions came out for you-asws! ’
I-asws said: ‘Shall I-asws narrate to you with a Hadeeth my-asws father-asws narrated with? He-asws said: ‘Rasool-Allah-saww said: ‘The one who is cheerful that Allah-azwj should Repel from him the inauspiciousness of his day, so let him open his day with a charity. Allah-azwj would Remove by it, from him, the inauspiciousness of his day. And the one who loved that Allah-azwj should Remove from him the inauspiciousness of his night, so let him open his night with charity. Allah-azwj would Repel from him the inauspiciousness of his night’. ‘And I-asws said: ‘And I-asws opened my going out with a charity. So this would have been better for you than your knowledge of the stars’’. [160]