Truthfulness and Trust — report 9

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ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

9ـ عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ الْوَشَّاءِ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي حَمْزَةَ عَنْ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) يَقُولُ إِنَّ الْعَبْدَ لَيَصْدُقُ حَتَّى يُكْتَبَ عِنْدَ الله مِنَ الصَّادِقِينَ وَيَكْذِبُ حَتَّى يُكْتَبَ عِنْدَ الله مِنَ الْكَاذِبِينَ فَإِذَا صَدَقَ قَالَ الله عَزَّ وَجَلَّ صَدَقَ وَبَرَّ وَإِذَا كَذَبَ قَالَ الله عَزَّ وَجَلَّ كَذَبَ وَفَجَرَ.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

9. A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from al- Washsha’ from Ali ibn abu Hamza from abu Basir who has said the following: “I heard Abu ‘Abdillah عليه السلام saying, ‘A servant (of Allah) may keep speaking the truth until he is written among the truthful ones before Allah or keep speaking lies until he is written in the (list of) liars before Allah. If a man speaks the truth, Allah, the Most Majestic, the Most Holy, will say, “He has spoken the truth and has acted virtuously.” If one speaks lies, Allah, the Most Majestic, the Most Holy, will say, “He has lied and has committed evil.’””

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 2, book 1, chapter 51, report 9

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · ضعيف على المشهور · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (8/185)

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

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Arabic witness SHA-256: 6923120dbee6ca9391b30f19ae75748d052bdd1c0cd097cc4074eedfeaf6d4d9

Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/2/1/51/9. 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.