Lies and Forgery — report 19

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ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

19ـ عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَبْدِ الله بْنِ الْمُغِيرَةِ عَنْ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنِ عَمَّارٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) قَالَ الْمُصْلِحُ لَيْسَ بِكَذَّابٍ.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

19. A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Khalid from his father from ‘Abd Allah ibn Mughirah from Mu’awiyah ibn ‘Ammar from Abu ‘Abdillah عليه السلام who has said the following: “Abu ‘Abd Allah عليه السلام has said, ‘A reformer (a peace maker) is not a liar.’”

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 2, book 1, chapter 139, report 19

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · صحيح · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (0/342)

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

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Arabic witness SHA-256: 6a778549f38cf6dccd6bdcf7165f125cfaff9efd27a3105b8a5bed26c7142dd2

Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/2/1/139/19. 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.