Chapter on the quality of knowledge its virtue and the virtue of the scholars — report 4

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ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

4ـ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ عَنِ الْفَضْلِ بْنِ شَاذَانَ عَنْ حَمَّادِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ رِبْعِيِّ بْنِ عَبْدِ الله عَنْ رَجُلٍ عَنْ ابي جعفر (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) قَالَ قَالَ الْكَمَالُ كُلُّ الْكَمَالِ التَّفَقُّهُ فِي الدِّينِ وَالصَّبْرُ عَلَى النَّائِبَةِ وَتَقْدِيرُ الْمَعِيشَةِ.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

4. Muhammad ibn ’Isma‘il has narrated from Fadl ibn Shadhan from Hammad ibn ‘Isa from Rab‘i ibn ‘Abdallah from a man that Abu Ja‘far (al-Baqir) عليه السلام said: 'The most perfect of all perfection is a good understanding of religion, exercising patience during affliction and setting up of means of living.'

Source & scholarly assessments

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

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