Al-Kāfi 5, narration 53

Shaykh Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb al-Kulaynī · Kindness to the Prisoners and Providing Him Food

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Arabic text

1- عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ الْمِنْقَرِيِّ عَنْ عِيسَى بْنِ يُونُسَ عَنِ الأوْزَاعِيِّ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِه) قَالَ إِذَا أَخَذْتَ أَسِيراً فَعَجَزَ عَنِ الْمَشْيِ وَلَيْسَ مَعَكَ مَحْمِلٌ فَأَرْسِلْهُ وَلا تَقْتُلْهُ فَإِنَّكَ لا تَدْرِي مَا حُكْمُ الإمَامِ فِيهِ قَالَ وَقَالَ الأسِيرُ إِذَا أَسْلَمَ فَقَدْ حُقِنَ دَمُهُ وَصَارَ فَيْئاً.

Translation

1. Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father from al-Qasim ibn Muhammad from af-Minqariy from ‘Isa ibn Yunus al-Awza’iy from al-Zuhri from Ali ibn al-Husayn (a.s), who has said the following: “If you take a prisoner who is not able to walk and you do not have a carriage to carry him, then allow him to go and do not kill him; you do not know what is the command of the Imam about him.’ The narrator has said that he (the Imam) then said, ‘If a prisoner becomes a Muslim, his life is spared and he is one of us.’”

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

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Chain of narration (isnād)

  1. 1. Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated
  2. his father
  3. al-Qasim ibn Muhammad
  4. af-Minqariy
  5. ‘Isa ibn Yunus al-Awza’iy
  6. al-Zuhri
  7. Ali ibn al-Husayn (a.s), who has said the following

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Published assessments

  • Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi

    سكت عنه

    Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (18/364)

  • Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi

    لم يخرجه

    Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

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Persian rendering (AI)

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