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Al-Kafi · Hadith 34

The Book on Dying People · The Rare Ahadith · Volume 3, book 3, chapter 95, Hadith 34

Original Arabic text

34ـ عَنْهُ عَنْ فَضَالَةَ عَنْ مُوسَى بْنِ بَكْرٍ عَنْ زُرَارَةَ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ (عَلَيْهِ الْسَّلام) قَالَ الْحَيَاةُ وَالْمَوْتُ خَلْقَانِ مِنْ خَلْقِ الله فَإِذَا جَاءَ الْمَوْتُ فَدَخَلَ فِي الإِنْسَانِ لَمْ يَدْخُلْ فِي شَيْ‏ءٍ إِلاَّ وَقَدْ خَرَجَتْ مِنْهُ الْحَيَاةُ.

Published English translation

34. It is narrated from the narrator of the previous Hadith from Fadalah from Musa ibn Bakr from Zurarah who has said the following: “Abu Ja‘far (a.s.), has said, ‘Life and death are two creatures of the creatures of Allah. When death comes then it enters in man. In whatever things death enters, life goes out of that place.’”

Narrator and transmission

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: ضعيف على المشهور

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (14/261)

Assessment transcribed from the source's named scholar and reference. No new grading or consensus is asserted; differing entries remain separate.

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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