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4. My father (RA) said: Sa`d ibn `Abd Allah said, on the authority of Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Khalid, on the authority of his father, on the authority of al-Nadr ibn Suwayd, on the authority of Yahya ibn `Imran al-Halabi, on the authority of Mu`alla Abu `Uthman, on the authority of `Ali ibn Hanzalah that Abu `Abd Allah al-Sadiq (AS) said
The privileged will enter the path of the adverse until the people say: `He is so similar to them that he must be one of them.’ Then the privilege reaches him. And sometimes the adverse enters the path of the privileged until the people says: `He is so similar to them that he must be one of them.’ Then adversity reaches him. Verily, whoever Allah, the Exalted, knows to be privileged, He will bring his life to an end with privilege, even if the only time that remains tin the world is the hiccup of a she-camel.
4 - أبي رحمه الله قال: حدثنا سعد بن عبد الله، عن أحمد بن محمد بن خالد، عن أبيه، عن النضر بن سويد، عن يحيى بن عمران الحلبي، عن معلى أبي عثمان عن علي بن حنظلة، عن أبي عبد الله عليه السلام
أنه قال: يسلك بالسعيد طريق الأشقياء حتى يقول الناس: ما أشبهه بهم بل هو منهم ثم يتداركه السعادة، وقد يسلك بالشقي طريق السعداء حتى يقول الناس: ما أشبهه بهم بل هو منهم ثم يتداركه الشقاء. إن من علمه الله تعالى سعيدا وإن لم يبق من الدنيا إلا فواق ناقة ختم له بالسعادة.
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