Promptness in Good Deeds

Al-Kāfi|Volume 2|Book 1|Chapter 65
Al-Kāfi

Volume 2, Book 1, Chapter 65

Promptness in Good Deeds

3ـ عَنْهُ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ مُرَازِمِ بْنِ حَكِيمٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) قَالَ كَانَ أَبِي يَقُولُ إِذَا هَمَمْتَ بِخَيْرٍ فَبَادِرْ فَإِنَّكَ لا تَدْرِي مَا يَحْدُثُ.
3. It is narrated from him (narrator of the Hadith above) from Ibn Abi ‘Umayr from Marazim ibn Hakim from Abu ‘Abdillah عليه السلام who has said the following: “My father عليه السلام would say, ‘When you intend to perform a good deed, do not delay; you may not know what happens next.’”
  • Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi
    Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (8/334)
  • Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi
    Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 1, p. 85