Improving Good Relations Among People — report 7

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ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

7ـ عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنْ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنِ وَهْبٍ أَوْ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنِ عَمَّارٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) قَالَ قَالَ أَبْلِغْ عَنِّي كَذَا وَكَذَا فِي أَشْيَاءَ أَمَرَ بِهَا قُلْتُ فَأُبَلِّغُهُمْ عَنْكَ وَأَقُولُ عَنِّي مَا قُلْتَ لِي وَغَيْرَ الَّذِي قُلْتَ قَالَ نَعَمْ إِنَّ الْمُصْلِحَ لَيْسَ بِكَذَّابٍ إِنَّمَا هُوَ الصُّلْحُ لَيْسَ بِكَذِبٍ.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

7. A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Khalid from ibn Mahbub from Mu’awiyah ibn Wahab or Mu’awiyah ibn ‘Ammar from Abu ‘Abdillah عليه السلام who has said the following: “Abu ‘Abd Allah عليه السلام once said, ‘Convey from me to so and so, in a few matters that he commanded me to do.’ I said, ‘Therefore I convey from you to them and say from myself only what you have told me to say and other things that you said.’ The Imam said, ‘Yes, an arbitrator cannot lie. He is the councilor, not a liar. ’”

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 2, book 1, chapter 91, report 7

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · صحيح · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (9/148)

Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi · صحيح · Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 1, p. 94

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Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/2/1/91/7. 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.