Al-Kafi · Hadith 9

The Book of Social Manners · Rights of Neighbors · Volume 2, book 4, chapter 24, Hadith 9

Original Arabic text

9ـ عَنْهُ عَنْ بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِهِ عَنْ صَالِحِ بْنِ حَمْزَةَ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الله عَنْ عَبْدٍ صَالِحٍ (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) قَالَ قَالَ لَيْسَ حُسْنُ الْجِوَارِ كَفَّ الأذَى وَلَكِنَّ حُسْنَ الْجِوَارِ صَبْرُكَ عَلَى الأذَى‏.

Published English translation

9. It is narrated from him (narrator of the Hadith above) from certain individuals of his people from Salih ibn Hamza from al-Hassan ibn ‘Abd Allah from ‘Abd Salih (a.s.) who has said the following: “Not to cause suffering to neighbors is not a good neighborly relation, however, to be a good neighbor and to exercise patience in suffering (caused by the neighbors) is a good neighborly relations.”

Narrator and transmission

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: مجهول أو مرسل

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (2/573)

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

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

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