كَانَ عِنْدَ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ مُوسَى (عليه السلام) رَجُلٌ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ فَجَعَلَ يَذْكُرُ قُرَيْشاً وَ الْعَرَبَ فَقَالَ لَهُ أَبُو الْحَسَنِ (عليه السلام) عِنْدَ ذَلِكَ دَعْ هَذَا النَّاسُ ثَلَاثَةٌ عَرَبِيٌّ وَ مَوْلًى وَ عِلْجٌ فَنَحْنُ الْعَرَبُ وَ شِيعَتُنَا الْمَوَالِي وَ مَنْ لَمْ يَكُنْ عَلَى مِثْلِ مَا نَحْنُ عَلَيْهِ فَهُوَ عِلْجٌ فَقَالَ الْقُرَشِيُّ تَقُولُ هَذَا يَا أَبَا الْحَسَنِ فَأَيْنَ أَفْخَاذُ قُرَيْشٍ وَ الْعَرَبِ فَقَالَ أَبُو الْحَسَنِ (عليه السلام) هُوَ مَا قُلْتُ لَكَ.
Translation
<a id="_Toc492473414">H 14735</a> – From him, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ibn Mahboub, from jahm Bin Abu Juheyma, who has narrated the following: <span class="first-chapter-phrase"><span class="first-in-chapter character-a">A</span> slave of Abu Al-Hassan</span><sup>asws</sup> has said, ‘In the presence of Abu Al-Hassan Al-Musa<sup>asws</sup> was a man from Qureysh, who went on to mention the Qureysh and the Arabs. Abu Al-Hassan<sup>asws</sup> said during that; ‘Leave that! These people are three (types) – Arabs, and ‘مَوْلًى’ friends and faithless. So we<sup>asws</sup> are the Arabs, and our<sup>asws</sup> Shites are the friends, and the one who is not upon the like of what we are on, so he is faithless’. So the Qureyshi said, ‘O Abu Al-Hassan<sup>asws</sup>! You<sup>asws</sup> are saying this, so where are the prided ones of Qureysh and the Arabs?’ So Abu Al-Hassan<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘It is how I<sup>asws</sup> have said it to you’.
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