Chapter on narrating books and Hadith (The virtue of writing and its preservation) — report 12

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hadith

ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

12ـ وَبِهَذَا الاسْنَادِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ رَفَعَهُ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) إِيَّاكُمْ وَالْكَذِبَ الْمُفْتَرِعَ قِيلَ لَهُ وَمَا الْكَذِبُ الْمُفْتَرِعُ قَالَ أَنْ يُحَدِّثَكَ الرَّجُلُ بِالْحَدِيثِ فَتَتْرُكَهُ وَتَرْوِيَهُ عَنِ الَّذِي حَدَّثَكَ عَنْهُ.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

12. It is narrated through the same chain of narrators from Muhammad ibn Ali in a marfu‘ manner from abu ‘Abdallah عليه السلام who has said the following. “Abu ‘Abdallah عليه السلام said, ‘Beware of the branched-out lies.’ They asked the Imam, “What is branched-out lies?” The Imam replied, “It is when a person narrates a Hadith to you and you would ignore him and narrate it from the person from whom he had narrated the Hadith.’”

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 1, book 2, chapter 17, report 12

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · مرفوع أو ضعيف · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (1/181)

Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi · لم يخرجه · Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

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Arabic witness SHA-256: 40233092941351552e363596f44b1bf027921204f5e1e81c4eb43c0bc99b30ed

Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/1/2/17/12. 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.