Al-‘Āmāli, Al-Shaykh al-Ṣadūq, The Fourth Assembly – Ḥadīth #5

It was narrated to us by ʿAlī bin Aḥmed bin ʿAbd Allāh bin Aḥmed bin Abī ʿAbd Allāh al-Barqi, who said – it was narrated to us by my father, from his grandfather Aḥmed bin Abī ʿAbd Allāh, from Ḥamza bin ʿAbd Allāh al-Jaʿfari, from Jamīl bin Darrāj, from Abī Ḥamza al-Thumāli, who said:¹

Al-Ṣādiq, Jaʿfar bin Moḥammed عليهما السلام, said: “Hope in Allāh, a [level of] hope that does not encourage you to disobey Him; and fear Allāh, a [level of] fear that does not leave you in despair of His Mercy.

1. This ḥadīth has a reliable chain. (Hādi al-Najafi)