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Hadith 5
Hadith #
5
Book
Al-Kāfi
Volume
1
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1
Part
The Book of Intelligence and Ignorance
Chapter
The Book of Intelligence and Ignorance
Source
Shaykh Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb al-Kulaynī
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4. Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn ‘Isa from ibn Faddal from al-Hassan ibn al-Jahm that
he heard (Imam) al-Ridha (as) saying, “The friend of every person is his intellect and his enemy is ignorance.”
4ـ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنِ ابْنِ فَضَّالٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ الْجَهْمِ قَالَ
سَمِعْتُ الرِّضَا (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) يَقُولُ صَدِيقُ كُلِّ امْرِئٍ عَقْلُهُ وَعَدُوُّهُ جَهْلُهُ.
Tags Intellect/Reason

Similar narrations

  • ʿUyūn akhbār al-Riḍā #197 The friend of any individual is his mind and his enemy is his ignorance.”
  • ʿUyūn akhbār al-Riḍā #1 Everyone’s friend is his intellect and everyone’s enemy is his ignorance.”
  • Muʿjam al-Aḥādīth al-Muʿtabara #2 I heard al-Ridha عليه السلام saying: the friend of every man is his intellect, and his enemy is his ignorance.
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