belongs the decision: if He so wills, He will punish him, and if He so wills, He will forgive him. (1)
Its chain of transmission is defective.
Tawus reported: I heard Ali ibn al-Husayn while he was in prostration inside the Hijr saying,
“Your slave is at Your threshold; Your destitute one at Your threshold; Your petitioner at Your threshold; Your poor one at Your threshold.”
He added, “By Allah, I have never invoked this supplication in any distress without it being lifted from me.” (2)
Hajjaj ibn Artat narrated—on the authority of Abu Jaʿfar—that his father shared his wealth with Allah, exalted is He, on two occasions, and said, “Allah loves the repentant sinner.” (3)
Ibn ʿUyaynah related, from Abu Hamzah al-Thumali, that Ali ibn al-Husayn used to carry loaves of bread on his back at night, searching out the needy in the darkness, and would say, “Charity given in the blackness of night extinguishes the Lord’s wrath.” (4)
Yunus ibn Bukayr reported, from Muhammad ibn Ishaq: Some people of Medina lived without knowing the source of their provision; when Ali ibn al-Husayn died, they missed what had been brought to them by night. (5)
Jarir ibn ʿAbd al-Hamid reported, from ʿAmr ibn Thabit: When Ali ibn al-Husayn passed away, they found marks on his back from the sacks he used to carry by night to the houses of widows. (6)