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Shia hadith/Al-Kāfi 1

Al-Kāfi 1, record 150 of the digital edition

Shaykh Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb al-Kulaynī · Chapter on narrating books and Hadith (The virtue of writing and its preservation)

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Arabic text

9ـ الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ مُعَلَّى بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ الْوَشَّاءِ عَنْ عَاصِمِ بْنِ حُمَيْدٍ عَنْ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) يَقُولُ اكْتُبُوا فَإِنَّكُمْ لا تَحْفَظُونَ حَتَّى تَكْتُبُوا.

Translation

9. Al-Husayn ibn Muhammad has narrated from Mu‘alla ibn Muhammad from al-Hassan ibn Ali al-Washsha’ from ‘Asim ibn Humayd from abu Basir who has said the following. “(Imam) abu ‘Abdallah (a.s.) said, ‘You must write down because you will not memorize until you write down.’”

Translation: Muhammad Sarwar — published with the edition, reproduced verbatim.

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Chain of narration (isnād)

  1. 9. Al-Husayn ibn Muhammad has narrated
  2. Mu‘alla ibn Muhammad
  3. al-Hassan ibn Ali al-Washsha’
  4. ‘Asim ibn Humayd
  5. abu Basir who has said the following. “(Imam) abu ‘Abdallah (a.s.) said

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Published assessments

  • Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi

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    Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (1/180)

  • Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi

    لم يخرجه

    Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

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