الْكَلَامُ ثَلَاثَةٌ صِدْقٌ وَ كَذِبٌ وَ إِصْلَاحٌ بَيْنَ النَّاسِ قَالَ قِيلَ لَهُ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ مَا الْإِصْلَاحُ بَيْنَ النَّاسِ قَالَ تَسْمَعُ مِنَ الرَّجُلِ كَلَاماً يَبْلُغُهُ فَتَخْبُثُ نَفْسُهُ فَتَلْقَاهُ فَتَقُولُ سَمِعْتُ مِنْ فُلَانٍ قَالَ فِيكَ مِنَ الْخَيْرِ كَذَا وَ كَذَا خِلَافَ مَا سَمِعْتَ مِنْهُ .
Translation
Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from Abu Yahya Al Wasity, from one of our companions, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> having said: ‘The speech are three (types) – a truth, and a lie, and a reconciliation between the people’. He (the narrator) said, ‘It was said to him<sup style="font-weight: normal">asws</sup>, ‘May I be sacrificed for you<sup style="font-weight: normal">asws</sup>! What is the reconciliation between the people?’ He<sup style="font-weight: normal">asws</sup> said: ‘You hear speech from the man, had it reached him (the other one), it would have made him feel bad. Then you meet him, so you are saying, ‘I heard from so and so saying regarding you, such and such from the goodness’, opposite to what you had actually heard from him’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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