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Hadith 198
Hadith #
198
Book
Al-Kāfi
Volume
8
Section
197
Part
The Book - Garden (of Flowers)
Chapter
Perople are like mines
Source
Shaykh Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb al-Kulaynī
۞
197. Sahl, from Bakr Bin Saleh with an unbroken chain from Abu Abdullah (asws) the following: Abu Abdullah (asws) said
‘The people are (similar to) a mine, like a mine of gold and that of silver. So they had an origin in the days of ignorance (pre-Islam), so there are (very few) who had an origin in Al-Islam’.
سَهْلٌ عَنْ بَكْرِ بْنِ صَالِحٍ رَفَعَهُ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ (عليه السلام) قَالَ
النَّاسُ مَعَادِنُ كَمَعَادِنِ الذَّهَبِ وَ الْفِضَّةِ فَمَنْ كَانَ لَهُ فِي الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ أَصْلٌ فَلَهُ فِي الْإِسْلَامِ أَصْلٌ.
Tags Prophet MuhammadGod-consciousness/PietyWisdom

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