hadith
907
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Hadith.5861 - Abu Abdullah Imam Jafar ibn Muhammad Al-Sadiq (as), peace be upon him, was asked about the one who is ascetic in this world.
Imam (as) said: "The one who abandons what is lawful out of fear of its reckoning and abandons what is unlawful out of fear of its punishment."
5861 - وَ سُئِلَ اَلصَّادِقُ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ : عَنِ اَلزَّاهِدِ فِي اَلدُّنْيَا قَالَ "اَلَّذِي يَتْرُكُ حَلاَلَهَا مَخَافَةَ حِسَابِهِ وَ يَتْرُكُ حَرَامَهَا مَخَافَةَ عَذَابِهِ".
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