Al-Kafi · Hadith 4

The Book of Belief and Disbelief · Leaving It to Allah to Be the Person in Charge of Affairs, and Having Trust in Him · Volume 2, book 1, chapter 32, Hadith 4

Original Arabic text

4ـ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ الله بْنِ سِنَانٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) قَالَ أَيُّمَا عَبْدٍ أَقْبَلَ قِبَلَ مَا يُحِبُّ الله عَزَّ وَجَلَّ أَقْبَلَ الله قِبَلَ مَا يُحِبُّ وَمَنِ اعْتَصَمَ بِالله عَصَمَهُ الله وَمَنْ أَقْبَلَ الله قِبَلَهُ وَعَصَمَهُ لَمْ يُبَالِ لَوْ سَقَطَتِ السَّمَاءُ عَلَى الأرْضِ أَوْ كَانَتْ نَازِلَةٌ نَزَلَتْ عَلَى أَهْلِ الأرْضِ فَشَمِلَتْهُمْ بَلِيَّةٌ كَانَ فِي حِزْبِ الله بِالتَّقْوَى مِنْ كُلِّ بَلِيَّةٍ أَ لَيْسَ الله عَزَّ وَجَلَّ يَقُولُ إِنَّ الْمُتَّقِينَ فِي مَقامٍ أَمِينٍ.

Published English translation

4. Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn ‘Isa from ibn Mahbub from ‘Abd Allah ibn Sinan from Abu ‘Abdillah (a.s.) who has said the following: “Any servant (of Allah) who comes forward to accept what Allah, the Most Majestic, the Most Holy, loves, Allah comes forward with what he (the servant) loves. Whoever seeks protection with Allah, He protects him. To whoever’s rescue Allah comes He will protect him even if the skies were to fall on earth or an incident involving all the inhabitants of earth were to befall them, but the person under the protection of Allah would be among the members of the party of Allah, well-guarded against all misfortunes. Is it not that Allah, the Most Majestic, the Most Holy, says, ‘The pious people are in a trustable and stable place?”’ (44:51)

Narrator and transmission

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: صحيح

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (21/8)

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

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

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