Using the Worldly Resources as Means for Success in the Hereafter
Al-Kāfi|Volume 5|Book 2|Chapter 3
8- عَنْهُ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ صَفْوَانَ بْنِ يَحْيَى عَنْ ذَرِيحِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ الْمُحَارِبِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللهِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) قَالَ نِعْمَ الْعَوْنُ الدُّنْيَا عَلَى الآخِرَةِ.
8. It is narrated from him (narrator of the previous Hadith) from Ahmad from his father from Safwan ibn Yahya from Darih ibn Yazid al-Muharibiy who has said the following: “Abu ‘ Abd Allah عليه السلام, has said, ‘The worldly resources are best means to overcome the difficulties of the next life.”’
- Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (9/14)
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 2, pp. 291, 292