Chapter on the necessity to seek knowledge and the recommendations to learn — report 8

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ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

8ـ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ عَنِ الْفَضْلِ بْنِ شَاذَانَ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ جَمِيلِ بْنِ دَرَّاجٍ عَنْ أَبَانِ بْنِ تَغْلِبَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) قَالَ لَوَدِدْتُ أَنَّ أَصْحَابِي ضُرِبَتْ رُءُوسُهُمْ بِالسِّيَاطِ حَتَّى يَتَفَقَّهُوا.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

8. Muhammad ibn ’Isma‘il has narrated from al-Fadl ibn Shadhan from Ibn Abi ‘Umayr from Jamil ibn Durraj from Aban ibn Taghlib that Abu ‘Abdillah (al-Sadiq) عليه السلام said, "I would have even liked that my companions' heads are lashed with whips for them to gain a comphrensive understanding [of the religion].

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 1, book 2, chapter 1, report 8

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · مجهول لكن في قوة الصحيح · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (1/101)

Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi · صحيح · Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 1, p. 3

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Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/1/2/1/8. Al-Kafi by al-Kulayni. English translation attributed by the digital catalogue to Muhammad Sarwar. CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. No endorsement implied.