Hadith 19

Tafseer of the Imam (Hassan Al-Askari-asws) – Abu Muhammad-asws said: ‘Ali-asws Bin Al-Husayn-asws said to a man: ‘Which of the two is more beloved to you – a friend, every time he sees you, gives you a bag of Dinars, or a friend, every time he sees you, helps you against a trap from the traps of the satan-la, and makes you recognise what can invalidate their plots, and break their network, and cut off their ropes? ’
He said, ‘But, a friend, every time he sees me, he teaches me how I can disgrace the satan-la from myself and defend myself from his-la affliction’. He-asws said: ‘So which of the two is more beloved to you – rescuing a needy prisoner from the hands of the Kafirs, or rescuing a needy prisoner from the hands of the Nasibis (Hostile ones)? ’
He said, ‘O son-asws of Rasool-Allah-saww! Ask Allah-azwj to Incline me towards the correct answer’’. He-asws said: ‘O Allah-azwj! Incline him! ”
He said, ‘But my rescuing the needy prisoner from the hands of the Nasibi, for it would provide the Paradise to him, and rescue him from the Fire, and that is a provision of the soul to him in the world, and the repelling of the injustice from him in it, and Allah-azwj would Compensate this oppressed one with a multiple of what he had faced from the injustice, and Avenge him from the oppressor with what is just with His-azwj Judgment’. He-asws said: ‘May Allah-azwj Forgive your father! You have taken it from the interior of my-asws own chest, nor leaving anything from what Rasool-Allah-saww said, not even one word. And Al-Baqir Muhammad-asws Bin Ali-asws was asked, ‘Is the rescuing of the Momin prisoner, from ones who loves us-asws, from the hands of the Nasibi (Hostile one) intending to stray him by the merit of his tongue and his explanation, better, or rescuing the prison from the hands of the people of Rome? ’
Al-Baqir-asws said: ‘You inform me-asws about the one who sees a man from the best of the Momineen drowning, and a sparrow drowning, not being able to finishing off, with which of the two would you occupy yourself and losing the other? Which of the two is superior that you finish him off (from the predicament)? ’
The man said, ‘One who is the best of the Momineen’. He-asws said: ‘The distance of what you asked regarding the merit is more than the distance of what is between these two. That one, his Religion is provided upon him, and the Garden of his Lord-azwj, and his rescue from the Fire, and this oppressed one would come to be in the Gardens. [18]