Balanced and Continuous Good Deeds

Al-Kāfi|Volume 2|Book 1|Chapter 41
Al-Kāfi

Volume 2, Book 1, Chapter 41

Balanced and Continuous Good Deeds

4ـ عَنْهُ عَنْ فَضَالَةَ بْنِ أَيُّوبَ عَنْ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنِ عَمَّارٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) قَالَ كَانَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وآلِه) يَقُولُ إِنِّي لأحِبُّ أَنْ أُدَاوِمَ عَلَى الْعَمَلِ وَإِنْ قَلَّ.
4. It is narrated from him (narrator of the Hadith above) from Fadalah ibn Ayyub from Mu’awiyah ibn ‘Ammar from Abu ‘Abdillah عليه السلام who has said the following: “Ali ibn al-Husayn عليه السلام would say, ‘I love to continue a good deed even if it is very little.’”
  • Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi
    Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (8/82)
  • Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi
    Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 1, p. 76