Al-Kafi · Hadith 1

The Book of Belief and Disbelief · Accepting the Gift of Belief and to Exercise Patience in all Matters Thereafter · Volume 2, book 1, chapter 101, Hadith 1

Original Arabic text

1ـ عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ فَضَّالٍ عَنِ ابْنِ بُكَيْرٍ عَنْ فُضَيْلِ بْنِ يَسَارٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْوَاحِدِ بْنِ الْمُخْتَارِ الأنْصَارِيِّ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) يَا عَبْدَ الْوَاحِدِ مَا يَضُرُّ رَجُلاً إِذَا كَانَ عَلَى ذَا الرَّأْيِ مَا قَالَ النَّاسُ لَهُ وَلَوْ قَالُوا مَجْنُونٌ وَمَا يَضُرُّهُ وَلَوْ كَانَ عَلَى رَأْسِ جَبَلٍ يَعْبُدُ الله حَتَّى يَجِيئَهُ الْمَوْتُ.

Published English translation

1. A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from ibn Faddal from ibn Bukayr from Fudayl ibn Yasar from ‘Abd al-Wahid ibn al- Mukhtar al-Ansari who has said the following: “Once abu Ja’far (a.s.) said to me, ‘O ‘Abd al-Wahid, nothing can harm one, if he is a person of proper understanding, who believes in our (Divine Authority), no matter what people may say about him. Although they may call him insane it will not harm him even if he lives on a mountain worshipping Allah until death approaches him.’”

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: مجهول

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (9/292)

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

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

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