Al-Kāfi 4, narration 2

Shaykh Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb al-Kulaynī · Virtue of Charity

2

Arabic text

2ـ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ عَنِ الْفَضْلِ بْنِ شَاذَانَ وَأَحْمَدُ بْنُ إِدْرِيسَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْجَبَّارِ جَمِيعاً عَنْ صَفْوَانَ بْنِ يَحْيَى عَنْ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ غَالِبٍ عَمَّنْ حَدَّثَهُ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَم) قَالَ الْبِرُّ وَالصَّدَقَةُ يَنْفِيَانِ الْفَقْرَ وَيَزِيدَانِ فِي الْعُمُرِ وَيَدْفَعَانِ تِسْعِينَ مِيتَةَ السَّوْءِ. وَفِي خَبَرٍ آخَرَ وَيَدْفَعَانِ عَنْ شِيعَتِي مِيتَةَ السَّوْءِ.

Translation

2. Muhammad ibn Isma‘il has narrated from al-Fadl ibn Shadhan and Ahmad ibn Idris from Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Jabbar all from Safwan ibn Yahya from Ishaq ibn Ghalib from those who narrated to him who has said the following: “Abu Ja’far (a.s.), has said, ‘Benevolence and charity remove poverty, increase longevity of life and dispel seventy kinds of wicked forms of death.” Another Hadith has said that it ‘dispels wicked forms of death from our Shi`a.’”

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

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Chain of narration (isnād)

  1. 2. Muhammad ibn Isma‘il has narrated
  2. al-Fadl ibn Shadhan and Ahmad ibn Idris
  3. Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Jabbar all
  4. Safwan ibn Yahya
  5. Ishaq ibn Ghalib
  6. those who narrated to him who has said the following: “Abu Ja’far (a.s.), has said

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Published assessments

  • Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi

    مرسل

    Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (16/125)

  • Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi

    لم يخرجه

    Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

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