20.Ibn Abī ʿUmayr narrated from Hishām ibn Sālim, from al-Yamānī who said
“I heard ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn (a) say, ‘How truly amazing it is that one works for the perishing abode yet abandons the [permanent] abode of the Hereafter.’”
ابن أبي عمير عن هشام بن سالم عن اليماني قال
سمعت علي بن الحسين عليهما السلام يقول: عجبا كل العجب لمن عمل لدار الفناء وترك دار الآخرة.
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