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Al-Kafi · Hadith 2

The Book of Belief and Disbelief · Belief is not affected by Evil Deeds and Disbelief Does not Benefit from Good Deeds · Volume 2, book 1, chapter 209, Hadith 2

Original Arabic text

2ـ عَنْهُ عَنْ يُونُسَ عَنْ بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِهِ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) قَالَ قَالَ مُوسَى لِلْخَضِرِ (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) قَدْ تَحَرَّمْتُ بِصُحْبَتِكَ فَأَوْصِنِي قَالَ لَهُ الْزَمْ مَا لا يَضُرُّكَ مَعَهُ شَيْ‏ءٌ كَمَا لا يَنْفَعُكَ مَعَ غَيْرِهِ شَيْ‏ءٌ.

Published English translation

2. It is narrated from him (narrator of the Hadith above) from Yunus from certain individuals of his people from Abu ‘Abdillah (a.s.) who has said the following: “Moses said to Khidr, ‘I am honored to associate with you. Instruct me with good advice.’ Khidr said, ‘Hold fast to that with which nothing can harm you just as things without it will not benefit you.”’

Narrator and transmission

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: مرسل

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (11/396)

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

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

Source records non-inclusion in this scholar's selection; this is not itself a weak or authentic grade.

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Muhammad Sarwar
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