Fairness and Justice — report 14

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ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

14ـ أَبُو عَلِيٍّ الأشْعَرِيُّ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْجَبَّارِ عَنِ ابْنِ فَضَّالٍ عَنْ غَالِبِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ عَنْ رَوْحٍ ابْنِ أُخْتِ الْمُعَلَّى عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) قَالَ اتَّقُوا الله وَاعْدِلُوا فَإِنَّكُمْ تَعِيبُونَ عَلَى قَوْمٍ لا يَعْدِلُونَ.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

14. Abu Ali al-Ash’ari has narrated from Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Jabbar from ibn Faddal from Ghalib ibn ‘Uthman from Ruh ibn ‘Ukht (nephew) of Mu’alla from Abu ‘Abdillah عليه السلام who has said the following: “Be pious before Allah and practice justice; you blame other people for not doing justice to others.”

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 2, book 1, chapter 66, report 14

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · موثق · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (8/349)

Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi · صحيح · Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 1, p. 86

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Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/2/1/66/14. 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.