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Shia hadith/Al-Kāfi 1

Al-Kāfi 1, record 153 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

12ـ وَبِهَذَا الاسْنَادِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ رَفَعَهُ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) إِيَّاكُمْ وَالْكَذِبَ الْمُفْتَرِعَ قِيلَ لَهُ وَمَا الْكَذِبُ الْمُفْتَرِعُ قَالَ أَنْ يُحَدِّثَكَ الرَّجُلُ بِالْحَدِيثِ فَتَتْرُكَهُ وَتَرْوِيَهُ عَنِ الَّذِي حَدَّثَكَ عَنْهُ.

Translation

12. It is narrated through the same chain of narrators from Muhammad ibn Ali in a marfu‘ manner from abu ‘Abdallah (a.s.) who has said the following. “Abu ‘Abdallah (a.s.) said, ‘Beware of the branched-out lies.’ They asked the Imam, “What is branched-out lies?” The Imam replied, “It is when a person narrates a Hadith to you and you would ignore him and narrate it from the person from whom he had narrated the Hadith.’”

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

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Chain of narration (isnād)

  1. 12. It is narrated through the same chain of narrators
  2. Muhammad ibn Ali in a marfu‘ manner
  3. abu ‘Abdallah (a.s.) who has said the following. “Abu ‘Abdallah (a.s.) said

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Published assessments

  • Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi

    مرفوع أو ضعيف

    Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (1/181)

  • Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi

    لم يخرجه

    Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

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