Excellence in Moral Behaviors — report 13

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hadith

ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

13ـ عَنْهُ عَنْ عَبْدِ الله الْحَجَّالِ عَنْ أَبِي عُثْمَانَ الْقَابُوسِيِّ عَمَّنْ ذَكَرَهُ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) قَالَ إِنَّ الله تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى أَعَارَ أَعْدَاءَهُ أَخْلاقاً مِنْ أَخْلاقِ أَوْلِيَائِهِ لِيَعِيشَ أَوْلِيَاؤُهُ مَعَ أَعْدَائِهِ فِي دَوْلاتِهِمْ. وَفِي رِوَايَةٍ أُخْرَى وَلَوْ لا ذَلِكَ لَمَا تَرَكُوا وَلِيّاً لله إِلا قَتَلُوهُ.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

13. It is narrated from him (narrator of the Hadith above) from ‘Abd Allah al-Hajjall from abu ‘Uthman al-Qabusi from the people whom he has mentioned (in his book) from Abu ‘Abdillah عليه السلام who has said the following: “Abu ‘Abd Allah عليه السلام has said, ‘Allah, the Most Blessed, the Most High, has, of the moral behavior of His friends, lent to His enemies so that His friends can live with His enemies in their governments.’” In another Hadith it is stated that had it not been as such they would not have left any of Allah’s friends alive.

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 2, book 1, chapter 49, report 13

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · مجهول وآخره مرسل · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (8/172)

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

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Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/2/1/49/13. 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.