40 Hadiths of Imam Reza(AS)
1. He who compares & likens Allah to his creations is a polytheist & the one who attributes something which has been forbidden for HIM is an infidel
(WASAIL USH SHIA, Vol 18, P557)
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2. Faith is to one grade superior & sublimer to Islam & piety is one degree superior to faith & certitude & certainty is one step superior to faith & nothing more elegent & excellent than certitude has been bestowed upon the sons of Adam (A.S.)
(BIHAR UL ANWAR Vol 78, P 338)
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3. Faith has four pillars: Trusting & relying upon Allah, & contentment & pleasure with the divine will, & submittance to the ordain & ordinance of Allah, & delegation & turning over (the affairs) to Allah. i-e (total submission & resignment to Allah).
(BIHAR UL ANWAR Vol 78,P 338)
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4. And faith means performing & discharging the obligatory duties & avoiding the committing of forbidden acts & faith is the recognition & knowing (Allah) through the heart & admitting & confessing through the tongue & practicing through the parts of body (physically).
(TUHFUL AQOOL, P 422)
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5. Rayyan says I said to Imam Reza (A.S.) "What do you say about Quran?" So he replied "It is the speech of Allah, do not exceed & move ahead of it & do not seek guidance from other than it, otherwise, you would go astray.
(BIHAR UL ANWAR Vol 92, P 117)
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6. Had Allah not frightened people by paradise & hell even then it would have been obligatory for them to obey Him & not commit His disobedience because of his favours & kindnesses upon them. And His granting them the beneficiences to start with, whithout any of their rights.
(BIHAR UL ANWAR Vol 71, P 174)
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7. Do not let the good deeds & Ijtehad & endeavour in worship go, depending & trusting upon the love of the Mohammad"s (P.B.U.H.) house hold.
(BIHAR UL ANWAR Vol 78, P 347)
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8. Be careful of greed & jealousy, since, these (vices) have perished the previous nations. And beware of stinginess because it is a calamity which will not be found in a free man & a faithful.
This (vice) is against & controversial to faith.
(BIHAR UL ANWAR Vol 78, P 346)
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9. Silence is a door among the doors of wisdom. Indeed, silence begets & attracts love it is the proof of all the beneficiences.
(BIHAR UL ANWAR Vol 78, P 355)
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10. Behave with the friend humbly & with the enemy carefully & the general people, with smiling & blooming face.
(BIHAR UL ANWAR Vol 78, P 355)
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11. Allah dislikes futile (useless)talk & squandering the wealth& begging (asking things).
(BIHAR UL ANWAR Vol 78, P 335)
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12. The miser does not have any comfort&so does the jealous not have any joy & felicity & the (kings) (rulers) do not have faithfulness & trust worthiness & the liar does not have any manlihood (forbearance).
(BIHAR UL ANWAR Vol 78, P 345)
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13. Do not acquire & adopt the company of drinker & do not salute him.
(BIHAR UL ANWAR Vol 66, P 491)
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14. Get connected to your kinship even it may be means of a drinking water with them. And the supreme & superb kind of connecting with the kinship as to avoid annoying them.
(BIHAR UL ANWAR Vol 78, P 338)
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15. Give alms although with a small amount of a thing because indeed all that is intended for the sake of Allah; although those may be meagre & small yet becomes great, & magnanimous by virtue of the righteousness & purity of intention.
(WASAIL USH SHIA. Vol 8, P 442)
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16. The one who happens to meet a poor Muslim & salutes him against the way he salutes a wealthy person shall meet Allah on the resurrection day in a way that He will be angry with him.
(WASAIL USH SHIA. Vol 8, P 442)
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17. Meet & see each other so that you get friendlier with each other.
(BIHAR UL ANWAR Vol 78, P 347)
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18. The one who repents upon the sins is like the one who does not have a sin.
(BIHAR UL ANWAR Vol 6, P 21)
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19. Cleanliness is from the morality & character of Prophets.
(BIHAR UL ANWAR Vol 78, P 335)
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20. The best wealth is the one by which the honour of man is protected.
(BIHAR UL ANWAR Vol 78, P 352)
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21. The weapon of the Prophets is essential for you. When asked "What is the weapon of Prophets". He said "supplication!".
(USOOL KAFI, Vol 1, P 468)
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22. Be the mercy of Allah upon you, know it that Allah has forbidden all (forms of) gambling & ordained the servants to avoid it & named it dirt (Contamination) (in His Book, Quran).
And said, "The dirt (filth) is the activity of satan so avoid it. Such as playing with chess & backgammons & other forms of gambling. And backgammons is worse than chess.
(MUSTADRAK AL WASAIL Vol 2, P 436)
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23. The superior most mind is the man"s recognition of his self.
(BIHAR UL ANWAR Vol 78, P 352)
24. The best and most respected virtue of a man is to do good and to fulfill the desires of the needy.
(BIHAR UL ANWAR VOL 78, P 355)
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25. He who wishes to be the most needless should put his full trust in Allah.
(FIQH-UR-REZA (A.S.). P 364)
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26.As soon as the intimacy appears the awe vanishes. Requisition for help is the beginning of misfortune.
(BIHAR UL ANWAR VOL 78, P 356)
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27.Gifts cast out hatred from the heart.
(AOYUN AKHBAR AR REZA(A.S.) VOL 2, P 74)
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28.One who torments his neighbour is not one of us.
(AOYUN AKHBAR AR REZA(A.S.) VOL 2, P 24)
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29. Giving alms is the most valuable savings.
(AOYUN AKHBAR AR REZA(A.S.) VOL 2, P 61)
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30.Good temper could be divided into two categories: 1- Intrinsic, 2- Voluntary: The possessor of which is considered to be the better person.
(FIQH-UR-REZA (A.S.). P 379)
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31. To be patient in the face of hardships is a virtue but to refrain from forbidden deeds is a greater one.
(MESHKAT AL-ANWAR, P 22)
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32. Patience and resignation are considered as the worthiest devotions.
(FIQH-UR-REZA (A.S.). P 359)
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33. The honest man has not betrayed you, but you consider the betrayer as the honest one.
(BIHAR UL ANWAR VOL 78, P 335)
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34. You had better avoid the munificence that results in the greater loss to you than the benefits received by your brethren.
(MUSNAD AL IMAM REZA (A.S.), VOL 2, P 314)
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35. True faith means: Oral acknowledgement, heart-felt knowledge and the good practice.
(AL-KHISAL SADUQ, P 177)
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36. He who is sure about the divine rewards will be more generous
(AOYUN AKHBAR AR REZA(A.S.) VOL 2, P 54)
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37. He who adopts someone as a brother in order to provide Allah"s consent will be given a chamber in paradise.
(THAWAB-UL-A"MAAL, P 151)
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38. True devotion not only means excessive saying of prayers and keeping fasts. One ought to meditate on The Divinity profoundly.
(USOOL KAFI, VOL 2, P 55)
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39. I wonder at one who purchases the slaves and releases them. Why doesn"t he try to make the free people indebted by his good conduct?
(FIQH-UR-REZA (A.S.). P 354)
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40. It is much better to be uninterested in other"s properties than to be munificent.
(FIQH-UR-REZA (A.S.). P 367)
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41. He who shows patience in providing Allah"s consent will no doubt get more than what he has lost.
(FIQH-UR-REZA (A.S.). P 368)
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42. He who desires to postpone the time of his decease and wishes to have his sustenace increased should observe ties of kinship.
(AOYUN AKHBAR AR REZA(A.S.) VOL 2, P 44)
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43. God will make happy on the Day of Judgement, the person who has removed the grief from the heart of a believer.
(USOOL KAFI, VOL 2,P 200)
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44. To help the disabled is much better than to give alms.
(TUHFUL AQOOL, P 525)
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45. There is no better milk for the baby"s nourishment than its mother"s.
(AOYUN AKHBAR AR REZA(A.S.) VOL 2, P 34)
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46. He who exposes himself to an open accusation should not blame those who may suspect him.
(SAHEEFAH TUR REZA (A.S.), P 71)
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47. The oppressors will finally be punished.
(CHEHEL HADITH, P 123)
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48. Be good companions of blessings because they are fleeting: once gone away, will not return.
(TUHFUL AQOOL, P 526)
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49. To use scent is a manner of the Holy Prophets (A.S.). Cleanliness is the characteristic of the Holy Prophets (A.S.)
(TUHFUL AQOOL, P 519)
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50. One who breaks his promise will not be left safe and sound in the unpleasant events.
(KASHF AL-GHUMMAH, VOL 3, P 148
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Poets Speaking in Praise about Imam Reza (as)
Imam Reza (as)'s Hadith
The Sermon and Teaching of Imam Reza (as)
Historical Event
Miraculous Healing
The Holy Imam’s (as.) Martyrdom
Imam al-Reza’s Historical Journey to Marw
Imam Reza s Supplication for Rain
Imam Reza s Social Behavior
The Holy Imam s Broad Field of Knowledge
Imam Reza’s (as) Character
