Fairness and Justice — report 6

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hadith

ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

6ـ عَنْهُ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ النَّضْرِ بْنِ سُوَيْدٍ عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ سَالِمٍ عَنْ زُرَارَةَ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ الْبَزَّازِ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) قَالَ فِي حَدِيثٍ لَهُ أَ لا أُخْبِرُكُمْ بِأَشَدِّ مَا فَرَضَ الله عَلَى خَلْقِهِ فَذَكَرَ ثَلاثَةَ أَشْيَاءَ أَوَّلُهَا إِنْصَافُ النَّاسِ مِنْ نَفْسِكَ.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

6. It is narrated from him (narrator of the Hadith above) from his father from al- Nadr ibn Suwayd from Hisham ibn Salim from Zurara from al-Hassan al-Bazzaz from Abu ‘Abdillah عليه السلام who has said the following: “In a Hadith he has said, ‘What is the most forceful obligation from Allah upon His creatures? I must ask you.’ The Imam mentioned three things of which the first was yielding to justice for people against one’s own soul.”

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 2, book 1, chapter 66, report 6

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · مجهول · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (8/344)

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

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Arabic witness SHA-256: 0ceb863793fbd915cec0886bedd2809059a26781fb29837285c5492980522bf3

Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/2/1/66/6. 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.