Prohibition on Speaking without Knowledge. — report 4

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ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

4ـ عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ الْوَشَّاءِ عَنْ أَبَانٍ الاحْمَرِ عَنْ زِيَادِ بْنِ أَبِي رَجَاءٍ عَنْ ابي جعفر (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) قَالَ مَا عَلِمْتُمْ فَقُولُوا وَمَا لَمْ تَعْلَمُوا فَقُولُوا الله أَعْلَمُ إِنَّ الرَّجُلَ لَيَنْتَزِعُ الايَةَ مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ يَخِرُّ فِيهَا أَبْعَدَ مَا بَيْنَ السَّمَاءِ وَالارْضِ.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

4. A number of our people has narrated has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Khalid from al-Hassan ibn Ali al-Washshi’ from Aban al-Ahmar from Ziyad ibn abu Raja’ from abu Ja’far عليه السلام who has said the following. “What you know you may speak it up but what you do not know say, ‘Allah knows best’. A man refers to a verse in the holy Quran and gives it a meaning that is farther from the truth than the heavens are from earth.”

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 1, book 2, chapter 11, report 4

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · موثق · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (1/137)

Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi · صحيح · Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 1, p. 5

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Arabic witness SHA-256: e73c4ffe9304cf0d052102af12f19165ac77002dc99bf926a868e201274a6b27

Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/1/2/11/4. 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.