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and has endeared the poor to you, so that you were content to have them as followers and they were content to have you as their leader. O Alī, blessed is whoever loves you and believes you, and woe to whoever hates you and tells lies about you. * As for those who love you and believe you, they are your brothers in faith and will share Paradise with you; as for those who hate you and tell lies about you * (1)—Allah has undertaken to make them(2) stand at the station of the liars.’”

Suwayd ibn Ghafalah said(3): “I visited Alī late in the afternoon and found him seated with a dish of hot milk before him. I could smell it because it was so sour. In his hand was a loaf with barley husks visible on its surface. He(4) would sometimes break it with his hand, but when it proved too hard for him, he broke it against his knee(5) and dropped it into the milk(6).

“He said, ‘Come closer and partake of this food of ours.’

“I replied, ‘I am fasting.’

“He said, ‘I heard the Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—say: “If fasting keeps a person from(7) food he desires, Allah has undertaken to feed him from the food of Paradise and give him drink from its beverages.”’

“I then said to his maidservant, who was standing there(8), ‘Woe to you, Fiddah! Do you not fear Allah in your treatment of this old man? Will you not sift his food to remove the bran I can see in it(9)?’

“She replied:

(1) The text between the two asterisks is absent from (M). (2) In (K): “Allah has undertaken, on the Day of Resurrection, to make him stand…” (3) [Unspecified siglum]: “And he said…” (4) The words “and he” are absent from (K), p. 175 (M). (5) In (K): “with his knees.” (6) The words “into it” are absent from (K). (7) In (K): *min* (“from”). (8) In (K): “and she was standing near him.” (9) In (K): “his food for him, to remove the bran I can see in it.”

وَحَبَّبَ إِلَيْكَ الْفُقَرَاءَ، فَرَضِيتَ بِهِمْ أَتْبَاعًا، وَرَضُوا بِكَ إِمَامًا. يَا عَلِيُّ، طُوبَى لِمَنْ أَحَبَّكَ وَصَدَّقَ عَلَيْكَ، وَالْوَيْلُ لِمَنْ أَبْغَضَكَ، وَكَذَبَ عَلَيْكَ. * أَمَّا مَنْ أَحَبَّكَ وَصَدَّقَ عَلَيْكَ فَإِخْوَانُكَ فِي دِينِكَ، وَشُرَكَاؤُكَ فِي جَنَّتِكَ، وَأَمَّا مَنْ أَبْغَضَكَ وَكَذَبَ عَلَيْكَ * (١) فَحَقِيقٌ عَلَى اللَّهِ أَنْ يُقِيمَهُمْ (٢) مَقَامَ الْكَذَّابِينَ» . قَالَ (٣) سُوَيْدُ بْنُ غَفْلَةَ: دَخَلْتُ عَلَى عَلِيٍّ الْعَصْرَ، فَوَجَدْتُهُ جَالِسًا بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ صَفْحَةٌ فِيهَا لَبَنٌ حَارٌّ، وَأَجِدُ رِيحَهُ مِنْ شِدَّةِ حُمُوضَتِهِ، وَفِي يَدِهِ رَغِيفٌ أَرَى قُشَارَ الشَّعِيرِ فِي وَجْهِهِ، وَهُوَ (٤) يَكْسِرُ بِيَدِهِ أَحْيَانًا، فَإِذَا غَلَبَهُ كَسَرَهُ بِرُكْبَتِهِ (٥) ، فَطَرَحَهُ فِيهِ (٦) ، فَقَالَ: ادْنُ فَأَصِبْ مِنْ طَعَامِنَا هَذَا، فَقُلْتُ: إِنِّي صَائِمٌ، فَقَالَ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ: «مَنْ مَنَعَهُ الصِّيَامُ عَنْ (٧) طَعَامٍ يَشْتَهِيهِ كَانَ حَقًّا عَلَى اللَّهِ أَنْ يُطْعِمَهُ مِنْ طَعَامِ الْجَنَّةِ، وَيَسْقِيَهُ مِنْ شَرَابِهَا» . قَالَ: قُلْتُ لِجَارِيَتِهِ وَهِيَ قَائِمَةٌ (٨) : وَيْحَكِ يَا فِضَّةُ! أَلَا تَتَّقِينَ اللَّهَ فِي هَذَا الشَّيْخِ؟ أَلَا تَنْخُلِينَ طَعَامَهُ مِمَّا أَرَى فِيهِ مِنَ النُّخَالِ (٩) ؟ فَقَالَتْ:

(١) مَا بَيْنَ النَّجْمَتَيْنِ سَاقِطٌ مِنْ (م) (٢) ك: عَلَى اللَّهِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ أَنْ يُقِيمَهُ (٣) : وَقَالَ. . (٤) وَهُوَ: لَيْسَتْ فِي (ك) ص ١٧٥ (م) (٥) ك: بِرُكَبِهِ (٦) فِيهِ: لَيْسَتْ فِي (ك) (٧) ك: مِنْ (٨) ك: وَهِيَ قَائِمَةٌ بِقُرْبٍ مِنْهُ (٩) ك: لَهُ طَعَامَهُ مِمَّا أَرَى فِيهِ مِنَ النُّخَالَةِ