After resuming the land grants made by `Uthman ibn `Affan, he said:

Pearl of Wisdom

'Poverty with us [i.e. our guardianship] is better than wealth with other than us, and death with us is better than life with other than us.'

Imam Ja'far ibn Muhammad al-Sadiq [as]

al-Kbard 'ij wa al-Jara 'ib, v. 2, p. 739, no. 54

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After resuming the land grants made by `Uthman ibn `Affan, he said:

Sermon 15 After resuming the land grants made by `Uthman ibn `Affan, he said:

By Allah, even if I had found that by such money women have been married or slave-maids have been purchased I would have resumed it because there is wide scope in dispensation of justice, and he who finds it hard to act justly should find it harder to deal with injustice.