Naeen al-Sahhaf narrated saying: “I was with Abu Abdullah when he told me: Do you like your brothers?”
“Yes,” I replied.
“Do you have any advantage for the poor ones?”
“Yes,” I replied again.
The Imam (as) said: “You are right in liking what Allah likes, but I swear by Allah that you invite none, unless you love Allah. Do you invite them to your home?”
“Yes, I do not eat unless there are two or three with me,” I said.
“Their advantage and benefit are more than yours on them,” The Imam (as) said.
I replied: “But my master! I feed them from my food, let them sleep in my bed and still their advantage for me is greater than mine on them?”
The Imam (as) replied: “Yes, if they enter your home, they enter it with Allah’s forgiveness for you and your family and they will remove your and your family’s sins.”
THE LIFE OF IMAM JAF’AR AL-SADIQ (AS) – BAQIR SHARIF AL-QURASHI