Al-Kafi · Hadith 19

The Book of Belief and Disbelief · Injustice, Oppression · Volume 2, book 1, chapter 136, Hadith 19

Original Arabic text

19ـ عَنْهُ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْحَمِيدِ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي حَمْزَةَ عَنْ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) قَالَ قَالَ مَا انْتَصَرَ الله مِنْ ظَالِمٍ إِلا بِظَالِمٍ وَذَلِكَ قَوْلُهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ وَكَذلِكَ نُوَلِّي بَعْضَ الظَّالِمِينَ بَعْضاً.

Published English translation

19. It is narrated from him (narrator of the Hadith above) from Muhammad ibn ‘Isa from Ibrahim ibn ‘Abd al-Hamid from Ali ibn abu Hamza from abu Basir from his father abu la’ far (a.s.) who has said the following: “Allah retaliates an oppressor through another oppressor only. It is in the words of Allah, the Most Majestic, the Most Holy, ‘Thus do We make the unjust friends of one another because of their evil deeds.’” (6:129)

Narrator and transmission

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: ضعيف على المشهور

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (10/307)

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

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

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