Patience in grief versus material loss

Nahj al-Balāgha · Volume 1 · Section 307 · 2 narrations

Hadith 1877

307. Amīr al-mu’minīn, peace be upon him, said: A man can sleep on the death of his child, but cannot sleep at loss of property.

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Hadith 1878

as-Sayyid ar-Raḍī says: It means that a man keeps patience on the death of his children but does not do so on the loss of property.

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