Chapter Eleven: The Gnosis of What Has Been Narrated Regarding Contentment and Submission.

[79] It is narrated from Al-Rida—and it is said from our Master Al-Sadiq, from His Might ('Izzuhu), that he said: "The believer is between two trials: a trial he is currently in, and a trial he is waiting to befall him. If he is patient with the first, the second shall be averted from him; but if he despairs over the first, he shall be afflicted with the second, and a third shall await him. He remains in such a state until he practices patience and contentment."

[80] And from Ahmad ibn Hudha, from 'Abdullah ibn Hammad, from Aban ibn Taghlib, from Abu 'Abdullah, Mighty is His Might ('Azza 'Izzuhu), that he said: "There is no servant among our Shia (followers) who is afflicted with a calamity and remains patient through it, except that he shall have the reward of a thousand martyrs."

[81] And by his chain of narration, from Al-Husayn ibn Mahbub, from Malik ibn 'Atiyyah, from Dawud ibn Yazid, from Abu 'Abdullah, Mighty is His Might, that he said: "Among that