Truthfulness and Trust — report 10

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hadith

ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

10ـ عَنْهُ عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنِ الْعَلاءِ بْنِ رَزِينٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ الله بْنِ أَبِي يَعْفُورٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) قَالَ كُونُوا دُعَاةً لِلنَّاسِ بِالْخَيْرِ بِغَيْرِ أَلْسِنَتِكُمْ لِيَرَوْا مِنْكُمُ الإجْتِهَادَ وَالصِّدْقَ وَالْوَرَعَ.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

10. It is narrated from him (narrator of the Hadith above) from ibn Mahbub from al- ‘Ala’ ibn Razin from ‘Abd Allah ibn abu Ya’fur from Abu ‘Abdillah عليه السلام who has said the following: “Abu ‘Abd Allah عليه السلام has said, ‘Preach and call people to the good, but not with your tongues. They must see from your hard work, truthfulness and restraint from worldly matters (sins).’”

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 2, book 1, chapter 51, report 10

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · صحيح · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (8/186)

Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi · صحيح · Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 1, p. 80

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Arabic witness SHA-256: 5ad34caef860d189fa4606bdc97d7a319fdf97cb71b0a88aa25e66cf2a2e4729

Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/2/1/51/10. 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.