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Al-Kafi · Hadith 2

The Book of Supplication · One’s Saying, No One Deserves to be Worshipped Except Allah · Volume 2, book 2, chapter 36, Hadith 2

Original Arabic text

2ـ عَنْهُ عَنِ الْفُضَيْلِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْوَهَّابِ عَنْ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ عُبَيْدِ الله عَنْ عُبَيْدِ الله بْنِ الْوَلِيدِ الْوَصَّافِيِّ رَفَعَهُ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ الله (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وآلِه) مَنْ قَالَ لا إِلَهَ إِلا الله غُرِسَتْ لَهُ شَجَرَةٌ فِي الْجَنَّةِ مِنْ يَاقُوتَةٍ حَمْرَاءَ مَنْبِتُهَا فِي مِسْكٍ أَبْيَضَ أَحْلَى مِنَ الْعَسَلِ وَأَشَدَّ بَيَاضاً مِنَ الثَّلْجِ وَأَطْيَبَ رِيحاً مِنَ الْمِسْكِ فِيهَا أَمْثَالُ ثُدِيِّ الأبْكَارِ تَعْلُو عَنْ سَبْعِينَ حُلَّةً وَقَالَ رَسُولُ الله (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وآلِه) خَيْرُ الْعِبَادَةِ قَوْلُ لا إِلَهَ إِلا الله وَقَالَ خَيْرُ الْعِبَادَةِ الإسْتِغْفَارُ وَذَلِكَ قَوْلُ الله عَزَّ وَجَلَّ فِي كِتَابِهِ فَاعْلَمْ أَنَّهُ لا إِلهَ إِلا الله وَاسْتَغْفِرْ لِذَنْبِكَ.

Published English translation

2. It is narrated from him (narrator of the Hadith above) from al-Fudayl ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab from Ishaq ibn ‘Abd Allah from ‘Ubayd Allah ibn al-Walid al- Wassafi in a marfu ’ manner who has said the following: ‘‘The Messenger of Allah has said, ‘Whoever (sincerely) says, ‘No one deserves to be worshipped except Allah’, a tree is planted for him in paradise, from red ruby that grows out of white musk, sweeter than honey, whiter than snow, of a fragrance better than musk, in which there is something like the breast of virgins, protruding from behind seventy dresses.’ ‘‘The Messenger of Allah has said, ‘The best worship is the words: ‘No one deserves to be worshipped except Allah.’ ‘‘He also has said, ‘The best worship is pleading before Allah for forgiveness, due to the words of Allah, the Most Majestic, the Most Holy, in His book: ‘(you must) know that no one deserves to be worshipped except Allah. Ask forgiveness for your sins. .. .’”(47:19)

Narrator and transmission

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: مجهول مرفوع

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (12/197)

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

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

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Muhammad Sarwar
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