Humbleness — report 9

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ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

9ـ عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله عَنْ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ هَارُونَ بْنِ خَارِجَةَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) قَالَ إِنَّ مِنَ التَّوَاضُعِ أَنْ يَجْلِسَ الرَّجُلُ دُونَ شَرَفِهِ.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

Several of our companions narrated from Ahmad ibn Abi Abdullah, from Uthman ibn Isa, from Harun ibn Kharijah, from Abu Abdullah عليه السلام , who said: "Verily, humility includes a man sitting below his social rank."

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 2, book 1, chapter 59, report 9

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · موثق · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (8/252)

Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi · صحيح · Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 1, p. 83

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Arabic witness SHA-256: 2873f4fe43bc3d92ab65a817f1a0edd111c7e96e230d761e057f4650c683ab19

Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/2/1/59/9. 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.