Reviving Barren Land
Al-Kāfi|Volume 5|Book 2|Chapter 137
1- عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ حُمْرَانَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ مُسْلِمٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا جَعْفَرٍ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) يَقُولُ أَيُّمَا قَوْمٍ أَحْيَوْا شَيْئاً مِنَ الأرْضِ وَعَمَرُوهَا فَهُمْ أَحَقُّ بِهَا وَهِيَ لَهُمْ.
1. Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father from Ibn Abi ‘Umayr from Muhammad ibn Humran from Muhammad ibn Muslim who has said the following: “I once heard abu Ja’far عليه السلام, saying, ‘Whoever of people revive a land and build it, they are more deserving to have it and it is for them. 5 ”
- Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (19/369)
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 2, p. 378