The Severity of the Trial of a Believer
Al-Kāfi|Volume 2|Book 1|Chapter 106
15ـ عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ الأشْعَرِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي يَحْيَى الْحَنَّاطِ عَنْ عَبْدِ الله بْنِ أَبِي يَعْفُورٍ قَالَ شَكَوْتُ إِلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) مَا أَلْقَى مِنَ الأوْجَاعِ وَكَانَ مِسْقَاماً فَقَالَ لِي يَا عَبْدَ الله لَوْ يَعْلَمُ الْمُؤْمِنُ مَا لَهُ مِنَ الأجْرِ فِي الْمَصَائِبِ لَتَمَنَّى أَنَّهُ قُرِّضَ بِالْمَقَارِيضِ.
15. A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Khalid from his father from Ibrahim ibn Muhammad al-Ash’ari from abu Yahya al- Hannat from ‘Abd Allah ibn abu Ya’fur who has said the following: “Once I complained to Abu ‘Abdillah عليه السلام about pain. (He was often in pains). The Imam said, ‘O ‘Abd Allah, had a believer known about the reward for suffering from afflictions, he would have wished to be cut in pieces with scissors.’”
- Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (9/335)
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 1, pp. 102, 103