Hadith 115

(The book) ‘Nahj al Balagah’ –
‘Shureyh Bin Al-Haris, the judge of Amir Al-Momineen-asws purchased a house for eighty Dinars during his-asws era. That reached him-asws and he-asws called him and said to him: ‘It has reached me-asws that you have bought a house for eighty Dinars, and you have written an agreement and got witnesses to witness it? ’ Shureyh said to him, ‘That has happened, O Amir Al-Momineen-asws’. He (the narrator) said, ‘He-asws looked at him with an angry look, then said: ‘O Shureyh! But surely there will be coming to you one (Angel of death) who will neither look into your agreement nor ask you about your proof (witnesses) until he will extract you from it alone and submit you to your grave purely. So look, O Shureyh, that you did not happen to buy this house from other than your wealth, or paid the price from other than the means permissible for you, for then you would have lost the house of the world and the house of the Hereafter (as well). But you, if you had come to me-asws during your purchase what you purchased, I-asws would have written out an agreement for you upon this transcript, and you would have turned away from buying this house for (even) one Dirham nor above it, and the transcript is this: –
‘This is what has been bought by a humble servant from a deceased who has prepared for the departure. He bought a house from him from the houses of deceit from the side of the perishing (mortals), and area of the ones to be destroyed, and gathered the four boundaries of this house. The first boundary ended up to the invitation of calamities, and the second boundary ends up to the invitation of the difficulties, and the third boundary ends up to the devastating desires, and the fourth boundary ends up to the deviating Satan-la, and in it begins the door of this house. He has bought this, the one deceived by the hopes from this one, from the one driven by the death, this house by the exiting from the honour of the contentment and the entry into disgrace of the seeking and the submissiveness. Thus, whatever this buyer comes across regarding what he has bought, from any level, then it would be up to the dismantler of the bodies of the kings, and confiscator of the souls of the tyrants, and remover of the kingdoms of the pharaohs like Chosroe and Caesar, and Tubba (kings of Yemen), and Himeyr (Sabean rulers), and the one amassing the wealth upon the wealth, so it is a lot, and the one who builds, and constructs, and decorates, and renews, and hoards, and preserves, and consideration in his view to be for the children, he (Angel of death) would take them all to the pausing plains and the Reckoning, and place of the Rewards and the Punishment, when the Command would occur with a decisive judgment, and over there the falsifiers would lose out [40: 78]. It has been witnessed upon that by the intellect when he came out from the impact of the whims and was safe from the attachments of the world’’. [11]