Lies and Forgery — report 18

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hadith

ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

18ـ عَنْهُ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ صَفْوَانَ عَنْ أَبِي مَخْلَدٍ السَّرَّاجِ عَنْ عِيسَى بْنِ حَسَّانَ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) يَقُولُ كُلُّ كَذِبٍ مَسْئُولٌ عَنْهُ صَاحِبُهُ يَوْماً إِلا كَذِباً فِي ثَلاثَةٍ رَجُلٌ كَائِدٌ فِي حَرْبِهِ فَهُوَ مَوْضُوعٌ عَنْهُ أَوْ رَجُلٌ أَصْلَحَ بَيْنَ اثْنَيْنِ يَلْقَى هَذَا بِغَيْرِ مَا يَلْقَى بِهِ هَذَا يُرِيدُ بِذَلِكَ الإصْلاحَ مَا بَيْنَهُمَا أَوْ رَجُلٌ وَعَدَ أَهْلَهُ شَيْئاً وَهُوَ لا يُرِيدُ أَنْ يُتِمَّ لَهُمْ.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

18. It is narrated from him (narrator of the Hadith above) from his father from Safwan from abu Mukhallad al-Sarraj from ‘Isa ibn Hassan who has said the following: “I heard Abu ‘Abdillah عليه السلام saying, ‘A person lying will be held accountable for all kinds of lies except three kinds: a man plotting in his fight will not be held accountable, a man trying to establish peace between antagonistic parties who may say something other than a party may have said with the intention to establish peace between them or a man who may promise his family something but he does not want to complete it.’”

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 2, book 1, chapter 139, report 18

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · مجهول · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (10/340)

Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi · صحيح · Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 1, p. 114

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Arabic witness SHA-256: 24121480446b71f566baa913559b55e7444bb907ea64b7c508d5f2b3fe384022

Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/2/1/139/18. 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.