YA Zahraa

The Rights of a Believer on his Brother (in belief) and his duty to observe Such Rights — report 3

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hadith

ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

3ـ عَنْهُ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ سَيْفٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ سَيْفٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ الأعْلَى بْنِ أَعْيَنَ قَالَ كَتَبَ بَعْضُ أَصْحَابِنَا يَسْأَلُونَ أَبَا عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) عَنْ أَشْيَاءَ وَأَمَرُونِي أَنْ أَسْأَلَهُ عَنْ حَقِّ الْمُسْلِمِ عَلَى أَخِيهِ فَسَأَلْتُهُ فَلَمْ يُجِبْنِي فَلَمَّا جِئْتُ لأوَدِّعَهُ فَقُلْتُ سَأَلْتُكَ فَلَمْ تُجِبْنِي فَقَالَ إِنِّي أَخَافُ أَنْ تَكْفُرُوا إِنَّ مِنْ أَشَدِّ مَا افْتَرَضَ الله عَلَى خَلْقِهِ ثَلاثاً إِنْصَافَ الْمَرْءِ مِنْ نَفْسِهِ حَتَّى لا يَرْضَى لأخِيهِ مِنْ نَفْسِهِ إِلا بِمَا يَرْضَى لِنَفْسِهِ مِنْهُ وَمُوَاسَاةَ الأخِ فِي الْمَالِ وَذِكْرَ الله عَلَى كُلِّ حَالٍ لَيْسَ سُبْحَانَ الله وَالْحَمْدُ لله وَلَكِنْ عِنْدَ مَا حَرَّمَ الله عَلَيْهِ فَيَدَعُهُ.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

3. It is narrated from him (narrator of the Hadith above) from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn ‘Isa from Ali ibn Sayf from his father, Sayf from ‘Abd al-‘Ala’ ibn ‘A’Yun who has said the following: “Once certain individual of our people wrote to Abu ‘Abdillah عليه السلام asking him about certain issues and they ordered me to ask the Imam about the rights of the Muslim on his Muslim brother and I asked the Imam but he did not answer me. When I went to say farewell to him I said, ‘I asked you that question but you did not answer me.’ The Imam said, ‘I am afraid you may disregard them. Of the obligations most pressing that Allah has made obligatory upon His creature are three things: a man’s yielding to justice against his own soul so as not to accept for his brother (in belief) what he does not accept for his own self, to assist his brother with his property and speak of Allah in all conditions. I do not mean thereby, saying, ‘Glory belongs to Allah and all praise belongs to Allah. Truly speaking of and remembering Allah is to stay away from whatever He has prohibited.’”
Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 2, book 1, chapter 75, report 3

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · مجهول · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (9/32)

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

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Arabic witness SHA-256: 939693cad93e7fb5436ce1528e362843bbe2ab6dd262b75fbe11a2b6270cb7d7

Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/2/1/75/3. 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.

Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/2/1/75/3. 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.

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