How to Increase One's Life

Here is a Muwaththaq (Reliable) ḥadīth on how severing and being undutiful to your relatives can bring your death closer. In order for us to increase our life, we should not sever or be undutiful to our relatives (i.e. parents, uncles, aunts, cousins, etc.).

عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنْ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ عَمَّارٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع يَقُولُ كَانَ أَبِي ع يَقُولُ نَعُوذُ بِاللَّهِ مِنَ الذُّنُوبِ الَّتِي تُعَجِّلُ الْفَنَاءَ وَ تُقَرِّبُ الْآجَالَ وَ تُخْلِي الدِّيَارَ وَ هِيَ قَطِيعَةُ الرَّحِمِ وَ الْعُقُوقُ وَ تَرْكُ الْبِرِّ

From Isḥāq bin `Ammār said, I heard Abā `Abd Allāh (عليه السلام) say: “My father (عليه السلام) would say: ‘We seek protection in Allāh from the sins which hasten ones extinction, and brings death near and deserts homes, and it is severing and being undutiful to the relatives, and the abandoning of al-birr (virtuous deeds)’”

Source:

1.     Al-Kulaynī, Al-Kāfī, ed. `Alī Akbar al-Ghaffārī, 8 vols., (Tehran: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyyah, 3^rd Edition, 1388 AH), vol. 2, pg. 448, hadeeth # 2

Grading:

1.     Al-Majlisī said this hadeeth is Hasan Muwaththaq (Good or Reliable)
à Mir’āt Al-`Uqūl, 26 vols., (Tehran: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyyah, 1410 AH), vol. 11, pg. 341