* Al-Sheikh Al-Kulaini states in Al-Kafi Book: Reported from Zurara from Imam Abou Jaa’far (Pbuh) that he said: “There is no way of worshiping Allah better than chastity of stomach and genitals.” [1]
* Al-Sheikh Al-Kulaini states in Al-Kafi Book: Reported from Abdellah bin Maimoun Al-Qaddah from Imam Abou Abdellah (Pbuh) that he said that Ameer Elmo’mineen (Pbuh) used to say: “The best worship is chastity.” [2]
* Al-Sheikh Al-Kulaini states in Al-Kafi Book: Reported from Al-Sukuni from Imam Abou Abdellah (Pbuh) that he said that the Messenger of Allah (Pbuhp) said: “The two matters that drive my nation to hell the most are the two insides: Stomach and genitals.” [3]
* Al-Sheikh Al-Kulaini states in Al-Kafi Book: Reported from Obeidellah bin Ziad from Imam Abou Abdellah (Pbuh) that he said: “be righteous to your parents so that your children become righteous to you and avoid the women of people so that you women are avoided.” [4]
* Al-Humairi Al-Qummi states in Qurb Al-Isnad Book: Reported from Abdellah bin Maimoun from Imam Jaa’far Al-Sadiq (Pbuh) that he said: “The Messenger of Allah (Pbuh) said: “ Be truly shy before Allah.” They said: “What we must do O Messenger of Allah?” He (Pbuh) said: “you must always see your death before your eyes. You must safeguard the mind and what it is aware of and the inner-side and what it contains. You must always remember the graves and the afflictions. He who seeks the Hereafter should abandon the ornaments of Donia.” [5]
* Al-Sheikh Al-Sadouq states in Al-Khisal Book: Reported from Zaid bin Ali from Imam Abou Abdellah (Pbuh) that he said: “The Messenger of Allah (Pbuhp) said: “He earns heaven he who is free from four traits: being occupied in Donia, following caprice and desires of stomach and genitals.” [6]
* Al-Sheikh Al-Houwaizi states in Tafseer Nour Al-Thaqalain Book: Reported from Abou Al-Jaroud from Imam Abou Jaa’far (Pbuh) that he explained { We have bestowed raiment upon you to cover your shame and feathers} and said: “raiment are the clothes that you wear and the feathers are the joys and money. As for the garment of piousness, it is chastity. The shame of the chaste one doesn’t appear even if he was naked. Yet the shame of the obscene is always seen even if he was covered with clothes. Allah says: {The garment of piousness is good} Chastity is the best of that from the signs of Allah for you might remember.” [7]
* Al-Hussein bin Saeed Al-Kufi states in Kitab Al-Zohod Book: Reported from Hamza bin Himran from Imam Abou Abdellah (Pbuh) that he said: “An Bedouin came to the Messenger of Allah (Pbuhp) and said to him: “advise me.” He (Pbuhp) said: “I advise you to protect what is between your legs.”
* Al-Sheikh Al-Kulaini states in Al-Kafi Book: Reported from Ahmad bin Mohammad bin Khalid from his companions from Imam Abou Abdellah (Pbuh) that he said: “the Messenger of Allah (Pbuhp) said: “You have to be chaste and avoid obscenity.”“ [8]
* Al-Sheikh Al-Kulaini states in Al-Kafi Book: Reported from Al-Asbagh bin Nabata from Ameer Elmo’mineen (Pbuh) that he said: “Allah created desire and made it into ten parts. He places nine parts in women and one part in men. If Allah hadn’t given them shyness in the same number of desire, everyman would have had nine women attached to him.” [9]
* Al-Hor Al-Amili states in Wasa’el Al-Shia Book: Reported from Abou Baseer from Imam Abou Abdellah (Pbuh) that he said: “The best of your women is the one undresses shyness when she undresses for her husband and wears shyness back when she wears her clothes.” [10]
* Al-Sheikh Al-Kulaini states in Al-Kafi Book: Reported from Al-Fadeel bin Yasar that he asked Imam Abou Abdellah (Pbuh): {they don’t show their ornaments but to their husbands} are the arms of women ornaments?” He (Pbuh) said: “Yes, what is other than the face veil and what is behind the wrist.” [11]
* Al-Sheikh Al-Kulaini states in Al-Kafi Book: Reported from Abou Obeida Al-Hathaa’ from Imam Abou Abdellah (Pbuh) that he said: “Shyness is from faith and faith is in heaven.” [12]
* Al-Mirza Al-Nouri states in Moustadrak Al-Wasa’el Book: Abou Al-Qasim Al-Koufi wrote in Al-Akhlaq Book that once the Messenger of Allah (Pbuhp) saw a man washing in a place where people can see him. So he said: “Shyness is the ornaments of Islam.” [13]
* Al-Sheikh Al-Toussi states in Al-Amali Book: Reported from Abou Thar from the Messenger of Allah (Pbuhp) that he said: “O Abou Thar, do you like to go to heaven? He said: “Yes, may my father be sacrificed for your sake.” He (Pbuhp) said: “So shorten hope, always have death before your eyes and be truly shy before Allah.” He said: “O Messenger of Allah, all of us are shy before Allah” He (Pbuhp) said: “Not that shyness. Shyness before Allah is in not forgetting graves and afflictions, the inner-side and what it contains, and the head and what it is aware of. He who wants a generous honorable reward must abandon the ornaments of Donia. When you are like, you are truly loyal to Allah.” [14]
* Ahmad bin Mohammad bin Khalid Al-Barqi states in Al-Mahasin Book: Reported from Madrak bin Abdel-Rahman from Imam Abou Abdellah (Pbuh) that he said that the Messenger of Allah (Pbuhp) said: “Islam is naked and shyness it its clothes. Its ornaments is loyalty, its magnanimity is righteous acts, its pillar is fear. Every matter has a base and the base of Islam is loving us Ahlul-Bayt.” [15]
* Al-Sheikh Al-Kulaini states in Al-Kafi Book: Reported from Al-Fadel bin Katheer from Imam Abou Abdellah (Pbuh) that he said: “He has no faith he who has no shyness.” [16]
* Al-Sheikh Al-Kulaini states in Al-Kafi Book: Reported from Ahmad bin Abi Abdellah from his companions from the Messenger of Allah (Pbuhp) that he said: “there are two kinds of shyness. The shyness of Mind and the shyness of foolishness. The shyness of mind is knowledge and the shyness of foolishness is ignorance.” [17]
* Al-Sheikh Al-Kulaini states in Al-Kafi Book: Reported from Ali bin Abi Ali Al-Lahibi from Imam Abou Abdellah (Pbuh) that he said that the Messenger of Allah (Pbuhp) said: “Allah changes the sins to righteous deeds of one if he has four traits: Honesty, shyness, righteous morals, and gratitude. Even if he was filled from top to bottom with sins.” [18]
* Al-Sheikh Al-Kulaini states in Al-Kafi Book: Reported from Jaber bin Yazeed Al-Joafi from Imam Abou Jaa’far (Pbuh) that he said: “The shame of he whose clothes are shyness is never apparent to people.” [19]
* Al-Sheikh Al-Moufeed states in Al-Amali Book: Reported from Anas bin Malik from the Messenger of Allah (Pbuhp) that he said: “obscenity shames every matter that is in it and shyness ornaments every matter that is in it.” [20]
* Al-Sheikh Al-Tabrasi states in Makarim Al-Akhlaq Book: Reported from Abou Saeed Al-Khidri that he said: “The Messenger of Allah (Pbuhp) was very shy. He gives whatever he is asked.” [21]
* Al-Sheikh Al-Tabrasi states in Makarim Al-Akhlaq Book: Reported from Abou Saeed Al-Khidri that he said: “The Messenger of Allah (Pbuhp) was more shy than the virgin. If he hated a matter, we directly knew it from his face.” [22]
* Nahej Al-Balagha Book: Ameer Elmo’mineen (Pbuh) said to his son Al-Hassan Bin Ali (Pbuh): “Shyness is the cause leading to every beauty.”
[1] الكافي ج2 ص79, عنه البحار ج 68 ص 268, وسائل الشيعة ج11 ص198/ ج14 ص270, مستدرك الوسائل ج11 ص275, الفصول المهمة ج2 ص218, كشف الغمة ج2 ص329, المحاسن ج1 ص292 باختلاف, عنه البحار ج66 ص393.
[2] الكافي ج2 ص79, عنه البحار ج68 ص269, وسائل الشيعة ج4 ص1089/ ج11 ص198, مستدرك الوسائل ج5 ص171/ ج11 ص275, مكارم الاخلاق ص269, عدة الداعي ص33, الفصول المهمة ج2 ص218, اللمعة البيضاء ص584, فلاح السائل ص27.
[3] الكافي ج2 ص79, عنه البحار ج68 ص269, روضة الواعظين ص457, وسائل الشيعة ج11 ص198, مستدرك الوسائل ج8 ص441/ ج11 ص274, مكارم الاخلاق ص150, عنه البحار ج63 ص314, الاختصاص ص228.
[4] الكافي ج5 ص554,من لا يحضره الفقيه ج3 ص21, الخصال ص55, عنه البحار ج68 ص270, الامالي للصدوق ص364, عنه البحار ج71 ص65, تحف العقول ص359, روضة الواعظين ص366, وسائل الشيعة ج14 ص270, تفسير نور الثقلين ج3 ص335.
[5] قرب الاسناد ص23, عنه البحار ج6 ص131/ ج68 ص271, الخصال 293, الامالي للصدوق ص714, روضة الواعظين ص434, مشكاة الانوار ص412, كتاب الزهد ص45.
[6] الخصال ص223, عنه البحار ج68 ص271/ ج70 ص93, مستدرك الوسائل ج12 ص111, تفسير نور الثقلين ج3 ص351.
[7] نفسير القمي ج1 ص225, عنه البحار ج68 ص271/ج80 ص168, التفسير الصافي ج2 ص187, التفسير الاصفى ج1 ص366, تفسير نور الثقلين ج2 ص15, تفسير الميزان ج8 ص88.
[8] الكافي ج5 ص554, وسائل الشيعة ج14 ص270.
[9] الكافي ج5 ص338, الخصال ص438, عنه البحار ج100 ص244, روضة الواعظين ص460, وسائل الشيعة ج14 ص40.
[10] الكافي ج5 ص324, وسائل الشيعة ج14 ص14, الفصول المهمة ج3 ص393, بحار الانوار ج100 ص239 عن كتاب الغايات, الحدائق الناضرة ج23 ص23 نحوه.
[11] الكافي ج5 ص520, وسائل الشيعة ج14 ص145, التفسير الصافي ج3 ص431, تفسير نور الثقلين ج3 ص592, الحدائق ج23 ص54.
[12] الكافي ج2 ص106, عنه البحار ج68 ص329, عيون اخبار الرضا (ع) ج2 ص239, تحف العقول ص383, وسائل الشيعة ج8 ص516/ ج11 ص330, مستدرك الوسائل ج8 ص463, كتاب الزهد ص6, المسترشد ص16, دلائل الامامة ص66, مشكاة الانوار ص411, الغدير ج9 ص275,بيت الاحزان ص46.
[13] مستدرك الوسائل ج1 ص488/ ج8 ص463.
[14] مستدرك الوسائل ج8 ص463, كتاب الزهد ص45, روضة الواعظين ص460 , وسائل الشيعة ج1 ص215 بعضه, كنز الفوائد ص98, الامالي للطوسي ص534, مكارم الاخلاق ص458, عنه البحار ج74 ص73, الغدير ج9 ص275 بعضه.
[15] السرائر ج3 ص615, المحاسن ج1 ص286, عنه البحار ج65 ص281, الكافي ج2 ص46, الامالي للصدوق ص341, تحف العقول ص301, وسائل الشيعة ج11 ص141, شرح الاخبار ج3 ص8, الامالي للطوسي ص84, عنه البحار ج27 ص82, مكارم الاخلاق ص433, مستطرفات الوسائل ص615, بشارة المصطفى ص150.
[16] الكافي ج2 ص106/ ج5 ص317, عنه البحار ج47 ص45, وسائل الشيعة ج3 ص376, الانوار البهية ص159, الغدير ج2 ص174.
[17] الكافي ج2 ص106, عنه البحار ج68 ص331/ ج74 ص149, تحف العقول ص45, وسائل الشيعة ج8 ص518, مشكاة الانوار ص411.
[18] الكافي ج2 ص107, عنه البحار ج68 ص332, وسائل الشيعة ج8 ص517/ ج11 ص155, تفسير نور الثقلين ج4 ص32, معدن الجواهر ص41.
[19] الكافي ج8 ص18, تحف العقول ص92, عنه البحار ج74 ص280, روضة الواعظين ص460, كنز الفوائد ص289, عيون الحكم ص450.
[20] روضة الواعظين ص460, وسائل الشيعة ج8 ص517 باختلاف, مستدرك الوسائل ج8 ص462/ ج12 ص80, الامالي للمفيد ص167, عنه البحار ج68 ص334/ ج76 ص111, مشكاة الانوار 413, الغدير ج9 ص276,
[21] مستدرك الوسائل ج8 ص465, بحار الانوار ج16 ص230, مكارم الاخلاق ص17.
[22] مستدرك الوسائل ج8 ص465, مكارم الاخلاق ص17, حلية الابرار ج1 ص322, بحار الانوار ج16 ص230, الغدير ج9 ص281, سنن النبي (ص) ص107, تفسير الميزان ج6 ص308, الشفا ج1 ص118, عيون الاثر ج2 ص423.
