سَمِعْتُ أَبَا جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلام ) يَقُولُ وَ اللَّهِ إِنَّ أَحَبَّ أَصْحَابِي إِلَيَّ أَوْرَعُهُمْ وَ أَفْقَهُهُمْ وَ أَكْتَمُهُمْ لِحَدِيثِنَا وَ إِنَّ أَسْوَأَهُمْ عِنْدِي حَالًا وَ أَمْقَتَهُمْ لَلَّذِي إِذَا سَمِعَ الْحَدِيثَ يُنْسَبُ إِلَيْنَا وَ يُرْوَى عَنَّا فَلَمْ يَقْبَلْهُ اشْمَأَزَّ مِنْهُ وَ جَحَدَهُ وَ كَفَّرَ مَنْ دَانَ بِهِ وَ هُوَ لَا يَدْرِي لَعَلَّ الْحَدِيثَ مِنْ عِنْدِنَا خَرَجَ وَ إِلَيْنَا أُسْنِدَ فَيَكُونَ بِذَلِكَ خَارِجاً عَنْ وَلَايَتِنَا .
Translation
From him, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ibn Mahboub, from Jameel Bin Salih, from Abu Ubeyda Al Haza’a who said, ‘I heard Abu Ja’far<sup>asws</sup> saying: ‘By Allah<sup>azwj</sup>! The most beloved of my<sup>asws</sup> companions to me<sup>asws</sup> is the most pious of them, and most understanding of the, and the most concealing of them of our<sup>asws</sup> Hadeeth; and the one of the most evil of states of them in my<sup>asws</sup> presence and the most detestable is the one who when he hears the Hadeeth linked to us<sup>asws</sup>, and is being reports as being from us<sup>asws</sup>, but he does not accept it and is constricted from it, and fights against it, and disbelieves from making a Religion with it, and he does not know perhaps the Hadeeth is coming out from us<sup>asws</sup>, and to us<sup>asws</sup> is the link, therefore, due to that, he would happen to exit from our<sup>asws</sup> Wilayah’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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