Sustenance and dimwittedness
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عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ بْنِ يَحْيَى عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ جَدِّهِ قَالَ قَالَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ (عليه السلام) وُكِّلَ الرِّزْقُ بِالْحُمْقِ وَ وُكِّلَ الْحِرْمَانُ بِالْعَقْلِ وَ وُكِّلَ الْبَلَاءُ بِالصَّبْرِ.
277. A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Khalid, from Muhammad Bin Ali, from Ubeyd Bin Yahya, from Muhammad Bin Al-Husayn, from Ali Bin Al-Husayn, from his father, from his grandfather who said: Amir-ul-Momineen (asws) said: ‘The sustenance is allocated to the foolishness, and the deprivation to the intellect, and the affliction to the patience’.