Lies and Forgery — report 15

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hadith

ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

15ـ عَنْهُ عَنِ ابْنِ فَضَّالٍ عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ الأشْعَرِيِّ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ بْنِ زُرَارَةَ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) يَقُولُ إِنَّ مِمَّا أَعَانَ الله بِهِ عَلَى الْكَذَّابِينَ النِّسْيَانَ.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

15. It is narrated from him (narrator of the Hadith above) from ibn Faddal from Ibrahim ibn Muhammad al-Ash’ari from ‘Ubayd ibn Zurara who has said the following: “I heard Abu ‘Abdillah عليه السلام saying, ‘The assistance that Allah finds (for His cause) against the liars is in (their) forgetfulness.’”

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 2, book 1, chapter 139, report 15

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · موثق كالصحيح · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (10/334)

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

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Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/2/1/139/15. 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.