Al-Kafi · Hadith 5

The Book of Belief and Disbelief · People with Inclined Hearts · Volume 2, book 1, chapter 176, Hadith 5

Original Arabic text

5ـ عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ حَسَّانَ عَنْ مُوسَى بْنِ بَكْرٍ عَنْ رَجُلٍ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) مَا كَانَتِ الْمُؤَلَّفَةُ قُلُوبُهُمْ قَطُّ أَكْثَرَ مِنْهُمُ الْيَوْمَ وَهُمْ قَوْمٌ وَحَّدُوا الله وَخَرَجُوا مِنَ الشِّرْكِ وَلَمْ تَدْخُلْ مَعْرِفَةُ مُحَمَّدٍ رَسُولِ الله (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وآلِه) قُلُوبَهُمْ وَمَا جَاءَ بِهِ فَتَأَلَّفَهُمْ رَسُولُ الله (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وآلِه) وَتَأَلَّفَهُمُ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ بَعْدَ رَسُولِ الله (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وآلِه) لِكَيْمَا يَعْرِفُوا.

Published English translation

5. A number of our people have narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad from Ali ibn Hassan from Musa ibn Bakr from a man who has said the following: “Abu Ja’far (a.s.) has said, ‘People of inclined hearts had never been as many as they are today. They were a people who accepted Allah only, had come out of paganism but the true knowledge about Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah had not entered their hearts as well as certain issues of what he had brought from Allah. The Messenger of Allah would meet them with kindness and after the Messenger of Allah the believers would meet them with kindness so they might receive true knowledge.’”

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: ضعيف

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (11/226)

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

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

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