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Shia hadith/Maʿānī al-ʾAkhbār 1

Maʿānī al-ʾAkhbār 1, record 189 of the digital edition

Shaykh Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Ṣaduq · The meaning of the hypocrite

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Arabic text

حدثنا أبي - رضي الله عنه - قال: حدثنا سعد بن عبد الله، عن يعقوب بن يزيد، عن محمد بن أبي عمير، عن عبد الله بن سنان، قال: كنا جلوسا عند أبي عبد الله عليه السلام إذا قال [له] رجل من الجلساء: جعلت فداك يا ابن رسول الله أتخاف علي أن أكون منافقا؟ فقال له: إذا خلوت في بيتك نهارا أو ليلا أليس تصلي؟ فقال: بلى. فقال: فلمن تصلي؟ فقال: لله عز وجل. قال: فكيف تكون منافقا وأنت تصلي لله عز وجل لا لغيره؟.

Translation

1. We were told by my father, may Allah be pleased with him, that he said: We were told by Sa’d bin Abdullah, from Ya’qoub bin Yazid, from Muhammed bin Abi Umayr, from Abdullah bin Sinan, that he said: We were sitting in the place of Abu Abdillah, peace be upon him, as a man from the sitting said to him: May I be sacrificed for you, O son of Allah’s Messenger, do you fear for me that I am a hypocrite? So he said to him: If you are alone in your house at day or at night, do you pray? So he said: Sure. Then he said: So who do you pray to? He said: To Allah, Exalted and Glorious is He. He said: Then how can you be a hypocrite while you pray to Allah, Exalted and Glorious is He, not to others?

Translation: Basel Kadem — published with the edition, reproduced verbatim.

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Chain of narration (isnād)

  1. 1. We were told by my father, may Allah be pleased with him
  2. he said: We were told by Sa’d bin Abdullah
  3. Ya’qoub bin Yazid
  4. Muhammed bin Abi Umayr
  5. Abdullah bin Sinan
  6. he said: We were sitting in the place of Abu Abdillah, peace be upon him

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