Praise and Glorification — report 2

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hadith

ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

2ـ عَنْهُ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ عَنْ سَيْفِ بْنِ عَمِيرَةَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ مَرْوَانَ قَالَ قُلْتُ لأبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) أَيُّ الأعْمَالِ أَحَبُّ إِلَى الله عَزَّ وَجَلَّ فَقَالَ أَنْ تَحْمَدَهُ.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

2. It is narrated from him (narrator of the Hadith above) from Ali ibn al-Husayn from Sayf ibn ‘Amirah from Muhammad ibn Marwan who has said the following: “Once I asked Abu ‘Abdillah عليه السلام ‘What deed is the most beloved to Allah, the Most Majestic, the Most Holy?’ The Imam said, ‘It is your deed of praising Him.’”

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 2, book 2, chapter 27, report 2

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · مجهول · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (12/145)

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

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Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/2/2/27/2. 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.