Al-Kafi · Hadith 31

The Book of Belief and Disbelief · The Sins · Volume 2, book 1, chapter 111, Hadith 31

Original Arabic text

31ـ عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَسْبَاطٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عَرَفَةَ عَنْ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) قَالَ إِنَّ لله عَزَّ وَجَلَّ فِي كُلِّ يَوْمٍ وَلَيْلَةٍ مُنَادِياً يُنَادِي مَهْلاً مَهْلاً عِبَادَ الله عَنْ مَعَاصِي الله فَلَوْ لا بَهَائِمُ رُتَّعٌ وَصِبْيَةٌ رُضَّعٌ وَشُيُوخٌ رُكَّعٌ لَصُبَّ عَلَيْكُمُ الْعَذَابُ صَبّاً تُرَضُّونَ بِهِ رَضّاً.

Published English translation

31. A number of our people have narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad from Ali ibn Asbat from ibn ‘Arafah from abu al-Hassan (a.s.) who has said the following: “Allah, the Most Majestic, the Most Holy, has an announcer who announces every day and night, ‘O servants of Allah, hold and stop committing sins and disobedience to Allah. Had it not been for the presence of grazing animals, breastfeeding children, bent down old people among you, torment would have definitely been poured down upon you and you would have been battered severely.’”

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: ضعيف على المشهور

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (9/429)

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

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

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