Al-Kafi · Hadith 4

The Book of Belief and Disbelief · Tyrannical Transgression · Volume 2, book 1, chapter 133, Hadith 4

Original Arabic text

4ـ عَلِيٌّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنِ ابْنِ رِئَابٍ وَيَعْقُوبَ السَّرَّاجِ جَمِيعاً عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) قَالَ قَالَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ إِنَّ الْبَغْيَ يَقُودُ أَصْحَابَهُ إِلَى النَّارِ وَإِنَّ أَوَّلَ مَنْ بَغَى عَلَى الله عَنَاقُ بِنْتُ آدَمَ فَأَوَّلُ قَتِيلٍ قَتَلَهُ الله عَنَاقُ وَكَانَ مَجْلِسُهَا جَرِيباً فِي جَرِيبٍ وَكَانَ لَهَا عِشْرُونَ إِصْبَعاً فِي كُلِّ إِصْبَعٍ ظُفُرَانِ مِثْلُ الْمِنْجَلَيْنِ فَسَلَّطَ الله عَلَيْهَا أَسَداً كَالْفِيلِ وَذِئْباً كَالْبَعِيرِ وَنَسْراً مِثْلَ الْبَغْلِ فَقَتَلْنَهَا وَقَدْ قَتَلَ الله الْجَبَابِرَةَ عَلَى أَفْضَلِ أَحْوَالِهِمْ وَآمَنِ مَا كَانُوا.

Published English translation

4. Ali has narrated from his father from ibn Mahbub from ibn Ri’ab and Ya’qub ibn al-Sarraj all from Abu ‘Abdillah (a.s.) who has said the following: “Amir al-Mu’minin, Ali ibn abu Talib (a.s.) has said, ‘O people, tyrannical transgression leads its associates to the fire. The first person who committed it against Allah was ‘Unaq, daughter of Adam, the first one that Allah killed was ‘Unaq who, when sitting occupied one acre. She had twenty fingers each of which had two fingernails like two sickles. Allah made a lion of the size of an elephant, a wolf of the size of a camel and a vulture of the size of a donkey to kill her. Allah has eliminated the transgressing tyrants in their most ideal and peaceful conditions.’”

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: حسن كالصحيح

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (10/284)

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Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi: Catalogue non-inclusion note (not an authenticity grade)

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

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