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Shia hadith/Al-Kāfi 4

Al-Kāfi 4, record 187 of the digital edition

Shaykh Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb al-Kulaynī · Rare Ahadith about Charity

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Arabic text

8ـ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَمَّنْ حَدَّثَهُ عَنْ مِسْمَعٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَم) قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ الله (صلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِه) لا تَسْأَلُوا أُمَّتِي فِي مَجَالِسِهَا فَتُبَخِّلُوهَا.

Translation

8. Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from al-Hassan ibn Mahbub from those who narrated to him from Misma’ who has said the following: “Abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), has said that the Messenger of Allah, O Allah, grant compensation to Muhammad and his family worthy of their services to Your cause, has said, ‘Do not ask my followers for charity in their gatherings, because you may make them seem stingy.’”

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

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Chain of narration (isnād)

  1. 8. Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated
  2. Ahmad ibn Muhammad
  3. al-Hassan ibn Mahbub
  4. those who narrated to him
  5. Misma’ who has said the following: “Abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), has said
  6. the Messenger of Allah, O Allah, grant compensation to Muhammad and his family worthy of their services to Your cause, has said

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Published assessments

  • Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi

    مرسل

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    Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (16/177)

  • Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi

    لم يخرجه

    Published in Arabic as the scholar wrote it. No reviewed English rendering exists yet.

    Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

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