Al-Kafi 192

اردو

سند: علی بن ابراہیم بن ہاشم، اپنے والد سے، حماد بن عیسیٰ سے، ابراہیم بن عمر یمانی سے، ابان بن ابی عیاش سے، سلیم بن قیس ہلالی سے، جنہوں نے کہا: میں نے امیر المؤمنین علیہ السلام سے کہا: “میں نے سلمان، مقداد اور ابوذر سے قرآن کی تفسیر اور رسول اللہ صلی اللہ علیہ وآلہ سے ایسی احادیث سنی ہیں جو لوگوں کے ہاتھوں میں موجود باتوں سے مختلف ہیں۔ پھر میں نے آپ سے ان باتوں کی تصدیق سنی جو میں نے ان سے سنی تھیں، اور میں نے لوگوں کے ہاتھوں میں قرآن کی تفسیر اور رسول اللہ صلی اللہ علیہ وآلہ سے احادیث کی بہت سی چیزیں دیکھیں جن میں آپ ان کی مخالفت کرتے ہیں، اور آپ کہتے ہیں کہ یہ سب باطل ہے۔ تو کیا آپ سمجھتے ہیں کہ لوگ رسول اللہ صلی اللہ علیہ وآلہ پر جان بوجھ کر جھوٹ باندھتے ہیں اور قرآن کی اپنی رائے سے تفسیر کرتے ہیں؟”

Translation

Ali Bin Ibrahim Bin Hashim, from his father, from Hammad Bin Isa, from Ibrahim Bin Umar Al Yamani, from Aban Bin Abu Ayyash, from Suleym Bin Qays Al Hilaly who said, ‘I said to Amir Al-Momineen^asws, ‘I heard from Salman^ra and Al-Miqdad^ra and Abu Zarr^ra, something from the interpretation of the Quran and the Ahadeeth from the Prophet^saww of Allah^azwj, other than what is in the hands of the people. Then I heard from you^asws the ratification of what I had heard from them^ra; and I see a lot of things to be in the hands of the people, from the interpretation of the Quran and from the Ahadeeth from the Prophet^saww of Allah^azwj. You^asws are differing from them in it, and you^asws are claiming that, all of that (which they interpret) is false. So, are you^asws viewing that the people are lying upon Rasool-Allah^saww deliberately, and they are interpreting the Quran by their own opinions?’ He (Suleymn Bin Qays) said, ‘So Ali^asws turned to face me and he^asws said: ‘You have asked, so understand the answer. In the hands of the people there is right, and wrong, and truthfulness and lies, and Abrogating and Abrogated, and general and specific, and Decisive and Allegorical, and memorised and delusions. And (it was so) that Rasool-Allah^saww had been belied upon during his^saww era, to the extent that he^saww stood up and addressed, so he^saww said: ‘O you people! The people have lied a lot upon me^saww. So the one who lies upon me^saww deliberately, so let him assume his seat from the Fire’. Then he^saww was belied upon from after him^saww, and rather the Ahadeeth came to you all from four (types of people). There is not fifth (narrator) for them. A hypocrite man who manifested the <span class="iTxt">Eman</span> pretending with Al-Islam. Neither did he consider it a sin nor anything wrong with deliberately lying upon Rasool-Allah^saww. So, had the people known that he is a lying hypocrite, they would not have accepted from him and would not have believed in him. But, they said, ‘This one has accompanied Rasool-Allah^saww, and had seen him^saww and heard from him^saww’, and they took from him and there were not recognising his state. And Allah^azwj had Informed about the hypocrites with what He^azwj Informed, and Described them with what He^azwj Described them. So He^azwj the Mighty and Majestic Said <span class="ibTxt"><a href="/#/books/quran:63#h4"><a href="/books/quran:63#h4">[63:4]</a></a> And when you see them, their persons would please you, and If they speak, you will listen to their speech</span>. Then they remained after him^saww, so they went closer to the leaders of misguidance and the inviters of the Fire with the false testimonies, and the lies, and the accusations. Thus, they made them office-bearers and carried them upon ruling over the people, and they (the rulers) devoured the world through them, and rather, the people are (always) with the kings and the world except for the ones whom Allah^azwj Protects. So this is one of the four (types of narrators of Ahadeeth)’. And a man who heard something from Rasool-Allah^saww, but did not preserve it’s all aspect and them became uncertain about it, and he did not lie deliberately. So it was in his hands (and) he was speaking by it, and acting by it, and narrating with it, and he was saying, ‘I heard it from Rasool-Allah^saww’. So, had the Muslims known that he was deluded, they would not have accepted it, and had he himself known that it was a delusion, he would have rejected it (himself). And a third man who heard something from Rasool-Allah^saww he^saww had ordered with, then he^saww forbade from it, and he did not know (of the prohibition), or he heard him^saww forbidding from something, then he^saww ordered with it, and he did not know (of the order). Thus he preserved the Abrogated and did not preserve the Abrogating, and had he known that he^saww had Abrogated it, he would have rejected it (himself), and had the Muslims known that when he had heard from him^saww, it was actually Abrogated, they would have rejected it. And the fourth (type of narrator) did not lie upon Rasool-Allah^saww, hated the lie out of fear of Allah^azwj and reverence (respect) to Rasool-Allah^saww. He did not forget, and he did preserve whatever he heard upon its (correct) aspect. So he came with it just as he had heard, and he did not increase in it and did not reduce from it, and he knew the Abrogating from the Abrogated (orders), thus he acted by the Abrogating and rejected the Abrogated. So the order of the Prophet^saww is like the (order of the) Quran, Abrogating and Abrogated, and particular and general, and Decisive and Allegorical. There have happened to be the speech from Rasool-Allah^saww having two aspects for it – a general speech and a particular speech, similar to the Quran. And Allah^azwj Mighty and Majestic Said in His^azwj Book <span class="ibTxt"><a href="/#/books/quran:59#h7"><a href="/books/quran:59#h7">[59:7]</a></a> whatever the Rasool gives you, accept it, and from whatever he forbids you, keep back</span>. So it was doubtful upon the one who did not recognise and did not know what Allah^azwj and His^azwj Rasool^saww Meant by it. And every companions of Rasool-Allah^azwj was not such that everyone who asked him about something, so he understood; and there were from them ones who were asked and they did not understand, to the extent that they used to love that a Bedouin and a stranger would come over, so he would ask Rasool-Allah^saww so that they would be listening. And I^asws used to go over to Rasool-Allah^saww every day for a meeting, and every night for a meeting. So he^saww would isolate himself^saww with me^asws, going around with him^saww wherever he^saww went, and the companions of Rasool-Allah^saww knew that he^saww did not hold (those meetings) that with anyone from the people apart from me^asws. So, sometimes it would be in my^asws house. Rasool-Allah^saww would mostly hold (consultations) that in my^asws house; and whenever I^asws went over to him^saww in one of his^saww rooms, he^saww would isolate with me^asws, and tell his^saww womenfolk to arise (to go away) from me^asws. So there would not remain in his^saww presence anyone apart from me^asws. And whenever he^saww came over to me^asws in my^asws house, Syeda Fatima^asws would not arise from me^asws, nor would anyone from my^asws two sons^asws (as among the Purified Ones) And it was so that whenever I^asws asked him^saww, he^saww answered me^asws, and whenever I^asws was silent from him^saww and my^asws questions had finished, he^saww would initiate (a discussion) me^asws. Thus, whatever was Revealed unto Rasool-Allah^saww a Verse from the Quran except that he^saww recited it and dictated it to me^asws. So I^asws wrote it down by my^asws own handwriting, and he^saww taught me^asws its explanation and its interpretation, and its Abrogating and its Abrogated, and its Decisive and its Allegorical, and its particular and its general. And he^saww supplicated to Allah^azwj that He^azwj should Give me^asws its understanding and its preservation. So I did not forget a Verse from the Book of Allah^azwj, nor any knowledge dictated unto me^asws, and I^asws wrote it down since he^saww supplicated to Allah^azwj for me^asws with what he^saww supplicated. And I did not neglect anything which Allah^azwj had Taught him^saww, neither from the Permissible nor Prohibition, nor a Command, nor a Forbiddance, occurrences of the past or that of the future, not a Book Revealed unto anyone before him^saww, from an obedience or a disobedience, except that he^saww let me^asws know of it and I^asws preserved it. Thus, I^asws did not forget a single letter. Then he^saww placed his^saww hand upon my^asws chest and supplicated to Allah^azwj for me^asws that He^azwj should Fill my^asws ‘<span class="iTxt">Qalb</span>’ heart with knowledge, and understanding, and wisdom, and light. So I^asws said: ‘O Prophet^saww of Allah^azwj! By my^asws father^as^ws and my^asws mother^as^ws (be for) you^saww! Since you^saww supplicated to Allah^azwj for me^asws with what you^saww supplicated, I^asws never forgot a thing and nothing was missed out by me^asws that I^asws did not write it, but you^saww are (still) fearing the forgetfulness upon me^asws?’ So he^saww said: ‘No. It is not out of fearing the forgetfulness and the ignorance upon you^asws’’.

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