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Bringing Happiness
365. The Prophet (s.a.w.) said: “There is a house in Heaven which is called [the house of] happiness and no one will enter it except he who brings happiness to children.”1
366. The Prophet (s.a.w.) said: “Buy meat for your children, and remind them of Friday.”2
367. The Prophet (s.a.w.) said: “There is a house in Heaven which is called [the house of] happiness and no one will enter it except he who brings happiness to the orphans of the believers.”3
368. The Prophet (s.a.w.) said: “He who adopts an orphan until he becomes self-sufficient, Allah shall write Paradise for him as He has written Hellfire for those who consume the possessions of an orphan.”4
369. al-Kāfi, narrating from Habib ibn Abu Thābit who said: “Some honey and figs were brought for the Commander of the Faithful (a.s.) from Hamadan and Hulwān,5 and he (a.s.) asked the chiefs of the tribes to bring all their orphans. He then gave them the brim of the sacs of honey and they began to lick while he divided the containers of honey one by one among the people. He was asked: “O Commander of the Faithful! Why do they lick the honey?”
He answered: The leader is the father of the orphans, and I made them lick the honey in the absence of their fathers.”6
1.. al-Kāmil fi Du‘afā' al-Rijāl, vol. ۱, p. ۲۰۳, narrating from ‘A'ishah. Kanz al-‘Ummāl, vol. ۳, p. ۱۷۰, h. ۶۰۰۹.
2.. Mustardak al-Wasā'il, vol. ۶, p. ۹۹, h. ۶۵۲۵, narrating from al-Qutb al-Rāwandi in Lub al-Albāb.
3.. Kanz al-‘Ummāl, vol. ۳, p. ۱۷۰, h. ۶۰۰۸, narrating from Ibn al-Najjār from ‘Aqabah ibn Amir.
4.. al-Kāfi, vol. ۷, p. ۵۱, h. ۷, narrating from ‘Abd al-Rahmān ibn al-Hajjāj from Imām al-Kāzim (a.s.) from Imām ‘Ali (a.s.). Kitāb Man lā Yahdarhu al-Faqih, vol. ۴, p. ۱۹۰, h. ۵۴۳۳, narrating from Salim ibn Qays from Imām ‘Ali (a.s.) from the Prophet (s.a.w.). Bihār al-Anwār, vol. ۴۲, p. ۲۴۸, h. ۵۱.
5.. Both are cities in Ancient Persia.
6.. al-Kāfi, vol. ۱, p. ۴۰۶, h. ۵. Bihār al-Anwār, vol. ۴۱, p. ۱۲۳, h. ۳۰.
