1. My father, may Allah grant him mercy, said: We were told by Muhammed bin Yahya al-‘Attar, from Ahmad bin Muhammed, from Hussain ibn Yazid, from Hussain bin A’yan, the brother from Malik bin A’yan, that he said: I asked Abu Abdillah, peace be upon him, about the saying of one man to another man: «May Allah reward you with goodness», what does he mean with it? Then Abu Abdillah, peace be upon him, said: Indeed, Goodness is a river in Paradise whose emergence is from the Kawthar, and the emergence of Kawthar is from the Leg of the Throne, upon which are the ranks of the Successors and their Shi’a. On the two sides of that river are sprouting maids; whenever one is pulled off, another sprouts with the name of that river, and that is the saying of Allah, Exalted and Glorious is He, in His Book: «In them are beautiful goods». (55:70) So, when one man says to his companion: «May Allah reward you with goodness», he only means by it those ranks which Allah, Exalted and Glorious is He, has prepared for His chosen and selected from among His creation.