Hadith 197
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26-15 Ali ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Imran ad-Daqqaq - may God be pleased with him - narrated that Muhammad ibn Abi Abdillah al-Kufi quoted on the authority of Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Salih al-Razi, on the authority of Hamdan ad-Diawni that Al-Ridha (s) said, “
The friend of any individual is his mind and his enemy is his ignorance.”
15 - حَدَّثَنا عَلِىِّ بْنِ أَحْمَدِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِمْران الدَّقَّاق رَضِىَ اللهُ عَنْهُ قالَ: حَدَّثَني مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَبي الكُوفِي، عَن أَحْمَدِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ صالِح الرَّازِيُّ، عَن حَمْدانَ الديوانِي قالَ
قالَ الرِّضا عَلَيْهِ السَّلامُ صديق كُلِّ امرئ عقله وَعَدُوِّه جهله.
Similar narrations
- 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.
- ʿUyūn akhbār al-Riḍā #1 Everyone’s friend is his intellect and everyone’s enemy is his ignorance.”
- Al-Kāfi #5 he heard (Imam) al-Ridha (as) saying, “The friend of every person is his intellect and his enemy is ignorance.”