Monday, 16 May 2011

Most people are animals, as per hadith


Kafi

عدة من أصحابنا، عن سهل بن زياد، عن ابن أبى نجران، عن مثنى الحناط، عن كامل التمار قال: سمعت أبا جعفر (عليه السلام) يقول: الناس كلهم بهائم ثلاثا  إلا قليل من المؤمنين، والمؤمن غريب  ثلاث مرات

A group of our companions, from Sahl b. Ziad, from ibn abi Najran, from Muthna al Hunnat from Kamil al Tammar who said: I heard Aba Ja'far(as) say: The people, all of them are animals [Imam(as) said it] three times, except a small quantity from the believers, and the believer is strange/rare. (Imam(as) said it) 3 times.
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4 comments:

  1. Anonymous17 May 2011 at 22:12

    Salam,

    Could you please post the precise location of this tradition in Kafi?

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  2. Bhooka_bhairiya17 May 2011 at 22:38

    @Anonymous: Wasalam,

    It's in Vol 2, page 242, hadith no. 2. I took it from here:

    http://www.al-shia.org/html/ara/books/lib-hadis/al-kafi-2/09.htm#01

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  3. Anonymous19 May 2011 at 02:30

    Salamu Alaikom,

    Bother, this tradition is weak, not only it has both weak and majhool narrators in its chain.

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  4. Anonymous2 August 2013 at 16:35

    Salam,

    Don't forget the Niyya of Sheikh Kulayni (ra), that the collected Hadiths in al-Kafi are sahih.
    And even Sayyed al-Khoei (ra) said that this book is sahih, even if the Sanad is weak.

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