Good Relation with Relatives
Al-Kāfi|Volume 2|Book 1|Chapter 68
25ـ عَنْهُ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَكَمِ عَنْ دَاوُدَ بْنِ فَرْقَدٍ قَالَ قَالَ لِي أَبُو عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) إِنِّي أُحِبُّ أَنْ يَعْلَمَ الله أَنِّي قَدْ أَذْلَلْتُ رَقَبَتِي فِي رَحِمِي وَأَنِّي لأبَادِرُ أَهْلَ بَيْتِي أَصِلُهُمْ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَسْتَغْنُوا عَنِّي.
25. It is narrated from him (narrator of the Hadith above) from Ali ibn al-Hakam from Dawud ibn Farqad who has said the following: “Once Abu ‘Abdillah عليه السلام said to me, ‘I love to show Allah humbling of my neck for my relatives and that I hasten to do good to my relatives and maintain good relations with them before they become independent of me.’”
- Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (8/384)
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 1, p. 88