hadith
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Amr ibn Yazeed narrated that Imam Baqir (a.s) said
“O' Followers of the Household of Muhammad! I advise you to be like the mid-sized cushions, so that those who exaggerate and those who are left behind both settle down in your position.” Someone asked who the exaggerators were. He replied: “They are the ones who ascribe to us what we do not ascribe to ourselves. They are not associated with us and we are not 1 associated with them either.” Then someone asked who those left behind were. Imam Baqir (a.s) replied: “The ones who are seeking good. They will get it. And they will receive the appropriate reward.” He then faced us and said: “I swear by God that we have no authority from God, and we have no relations of kin with God, and we have no authority over God. You cannot get closer to God except through obedience to Him. Thus you can benefit from our friendship only if you obey God, and if any of you disobeys God he shall not gain any benefit from our friendship.”
عن عمر بن يزيد قال
قال أبو جعفر (عليه السلام): يا معشر شيعة آل محمد - عليه وعليهم السلام - كونوا النمرقة الوسطى، إليكم يرجع الغالي وبكم يلحق التالي، فقال رجل: جعلت فداك وما الغالي؟ قال: قوم يقولون فينا ما لا نقوله في أنفسنا، فليس أولئك منا ولسنا منهم، قال: فما التالي؟ قال: المرتاد يريد الخير يبلغه الخير ويؤجر عليه، ثم أقبل علينا فقال: والله ما معنا من الله براءة، وما بيننا وبين الله قرابة، ولا لنا على الله حجة، ولا يتقرب إلى الله إلا بالطاعة، فمن كان منكم مطيعا نفعته ولايتنا، ومن كان عاصيا لم تنفعه ولايتنا.