Promptness in Good Deeds
Al-Kāfi|Volume 2|Book 1|Chapter 65
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.’”
- Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (8/334)
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 1, p. 85