Kindness to Parents — report 4

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ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

4ـ الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ مُعَلَّى بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ الْوَشَّاءِ عَنْ مَنْصُورِ بْنِ حَازِمٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) قَالَ قُلْتُ أَيُّ الأعْمَالِ أَفْضَلُ قَالَ الصَّلاةُ لِوَقْتِهَا وَبِرُّ الْوَالِدَيْنِ وَالْجِهَادُ فِي سَبِيلِ الله عَزَّ وَجَلَّ.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

4. Al-Husayn ibn Muhammad has narrated from Mu’alla ibn Muhammad from al- Washsha’ from Mansur ibn Hazim from Abu ‘Abdillah عليه السلام who has said the following: “I asked Abu ‘Abdillah عليه السلام ‘Which deed is the best?’ The Imam said, ‘Prayer in its proper time, kindness to parents and hard work to strive for the cause of Allah, the Most Majestic, the Most Holy.’”

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 2, book 1, chapter 69, report 4

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · ضعيف على المشهور · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (8/399)

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

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Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/2/1/69/4. 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.