Kitāb al-Muʾmin

Hadith 160
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160 - وعن أبي عبد الله عليه السلام قال: ما من مؤمن يدخل بيته مؤمنين يطعمهما ويشبعهما: إلا كان ذلك أفضل من عتق نسمة.
160. It has been narrated that Abu 'Abd Allah (a.s) said: If two believers were to enter the house of a believer and he were to feed them to full, this would be better than freeing a slave.”
Source: Ḥusayn b. Saʿīd al-Ahwāzī

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