1. I was told by Ahmad bin Muhammed bin Yahya al-‘Attar, may Allah be pleased with him, that he said: We were told by Sa’d bin Abdullah, from Ahmad bin Muhammed bin Isa, from his father, from Muhammed bin Abi ‘Umayr, from Ali bin Abi Hamza, from Abu Baseer, from al-Sadiq, Ja’far bin Muhammed, from his fathers, from Ali, peace be upon him, that he said: The Messenger of Allah, Allah’s blessings be upon him and his Family, said: Indeed, in Paradise there are rooms from whom their outside is visible from the inside, their inside from their outside. They are inhabited by those from my nation who beautify speech, feed with food, spread peace, continuously fasted and prayed at night while people were asleep. Then Ali, peace be upon him, said: O Messenger of Allah, and who can handle this from your nation? He, peace be upon him, then said: O Ali, do you not know what beautifying speech is? (It is) The one who says, when he wakes up at the morning and is to sleep at night: «Glory be to Allah, and praise be to Allah, and there is no god but Allah, and Allah is the Greater» ten times. Feeding with food is a man’s expenditure towards his family. As for continuously fasting, it is that a man fasts the month of Ramadhan and three days of every month, by which the fasting of a lifetime is written for him (in rewards). As for praying at night while people are asleep, it is that the one who prays (the prayer of) the sundown, the prayer of the last evening and the prayer of the early morning in a mosque in congregation, and it will be as if he has revived all the night (in prayer). The spreading of peace is that one is not stingy with sending peace upon anyone of the Muslims.
