Lies and Forgery — report 21

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ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

21ـ عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَسْبَاطٍ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ الْخُرَاسَانِيِّ قَالَ كَانَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وآلِه) يَقُولُ إِيَّاكُمْ وَالْكَذِبَ فَإِنَّ كُلَّ رَاجٍ طَالِبٌ وَكُلَّ خَائِفٍ هَارِبٌ.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

21. A number of our people have narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad from Ali ibn Asbat from abu Ishaq al-Khurasani who has said the following: “Amir al-Mifminin, Ali ibn abu Talib عليه السلام would say, ‘Beware of lying; every hopeful strives to make his wish come true and every fearful person runs away (and I do not find this quality in you).”

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 2, book 1, chapter 139, report 21

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · ضعيف على المشهور · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (10/344)

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

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Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/2/1/139/21. 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.