Al-Kafi 14563

Translation

Al Husayn Bin Muhammad, from Al Sayyari, from Muhammad Bin Jamhour, from the one who narrated it, from Ibn Abu Yafour who said, ‘The testimony was necessitated, so I testified by it in the presence of Abu Yusuf, the judge. So Abu Yusuf said, ‘What is there for me so be saying with regards to you, O Ibn Abu Yafour, and you are my neighbour. I do not know you except as truthful, of lengthy nights (in Prayer), but for that characteristic’. (Abu Yafour) said, ‘And what is it’. He said, ‘Your tendency towards the rejecters (Shiah)’. So Ibn Abu Yafour wept until his tears flowed, then said, ‘O Abu Yusuf! You are linking me to a people, I fear that I might not be one of them’. He (the narrator) said, ‘So he allowed his testimony’.<a id="_ftnref1481"></a>^[1481] (P.s. – This is not a Hadeeth) A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Muhammad Bin Al Hassan Bin Shamoun, from Abdullah Bin Abdul Rahman, from Misma’a Bin Abdul Malik, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah^asws that Amir Al-Momineen^asws had judged regarding an Atheist when two just men had testified against him of their own free will, and a thousand had testified for him with the disavowing, he^asws allowed the testimony of the two men and invalidated the testimony of the thousand, because it (Atheism) is a concealed religion’.

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