Kitāb al-Zuhd

Hadith 289
enjoining-good
علي بن النعمان عن داود بن أبي يزيد عن أبي شيبة الزهري عن أحدهما عليهما السلام قال: ويل لقوم لا يدينون الله بالامر بالمعروف والنهى عن المنكر.
3.ʿAlī ibn al-Nuʿmān narrated from Dāwūd ibn Abī Yazīd, from Abū Shaybah al-Zuhrī, from one of the two [Imams] (a) who said, “Woe be to the community that does not worship Allah through enjoining good and forbidding evil.”
Source: Ḥusayn b. Saʿīd al-Ahwāzī

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