The Necessary Mention of Allah, the Most Majestic, the Most Holy, in Every Gathering — report 13

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ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

13ـ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَمَّنْ ذَكَرَهُ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) قَالَ قَالَ الله عَزَّ وَجَلَّ مَنْ ذَكَرَنِي فِي مَلأ مِنَ النَّاسِ ذَكَرْتُهُ فِي مَلأ مِنَ الْمَلائِكَةِ.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

13. Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn ‘Isa from ibn Mahbub from those whom he has mentioned (in his book) from Abu ‘Abdillah عليه السلام who has said the following: “Abu ‘Abd Allah عليه السلام has said, ‘Allah, the Most Majestic, the Most Holy, has said, “Whoever speaks of Me in a group of people, I speak of him in a group of angels.’”

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 2, book 2, chapter 21, report 13

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · مرسل · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (12/128)

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

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Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/2/2/21/13. 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.