Hadith [Traditions]
26 sayings
"Falsifying Allah, His Messenger and the Holy Imam (a.s.) is a greater sin." The Holy Prophet (s.a.w.s.) said, "One who relates a thing to me which I haven't said is certain to go to Hell."
Iqbal al-A`amal, page 338 link
One of the gravest of the grave sins is to attribute to me something that I have not said
Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 29255; Mizan ul Hikmah page No. 944 link
Muhammad b. Muslim narrated, 'I asked Abu `Abdillah [al-Sadiq] (AS): "I hear a tradition from you and then I add to it or subtract from it." He said, 'If you [do this] intending its meanings, then it does not matter.'
Bihar al-Anwar, v. 2, p. 164, no. 21; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 946 link
Imam Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali [a] said
Do you like it for Allah and His Messenger to be called liars?! Then transmit to the people only that which they understand and withhold that which they [i.e. their intellects] reject.
Bihar al-Anwar, v. 2, p. 77, no. 60; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 946 link
Truly our traditions are hard and difficult, unbearable except by a near-stationed angel, a sent prophet, or a servant whose heart has been tested by Allah for faith, or a strongly guarded city.' `Amr narrated, 'I then asked Shu`ayb, who had transmitted this tradition to me: 'O Abu al-?asan! What is the strongly guarded city?' He replied, 'I asked Abu `Abdillah (AS) about it, and he said to me, 'It is an all-comprehending heart
Ma`ani al-Akhbar, p. 189, no. 1; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 947 link
I was with Abu `Abdillah [al-Sadiq] (AS), and there was with him a man from al-Mughiriyyah. The man asked him about some practices. He said, 'There is nothing which the offspring of Adam needs except that it has been expounded in the practices set by Allah and His Messenger. Otherwise He would not have the argument over us that He holds.' The man from al-Mughiriyyah then asked, 'And what is His argument?' Abu `Abdillah (AS) said, '[It is] His verse: "Today I have perfected your religion for you, and I have completed My blessing upon you" [Qur'an 5:3].
Bihar al-Anwar, v. 2, p. 169, no. 3; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 947 link
Imam Ali ibn Musa al-Rida [a] said
Some of our traditions are ambiguous like the ambiguous verses of the Qur'an, and some are clear like the clear verses of the Qur'an. Then refer its ambiguous ones to its clear ones, and do not follow its ambiguous ones [blindly] without referring to its clear ones lest you go astray.
Uyoun Akhbar al-Reza (AS), v. 1, p. 290, no. 39; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 948 link
Imam Musa Kazim (a.s.) narrates that the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.s.) said, "Allah will resurrect on the Day of Judgment as a jurist and a scholar one who memorizes forty traditions as a part of a commandment of his religion."
Sawab al-A`amal, Page 179 link
Compare my tradition with the Book of Allah. If it corresponds with it, then it is from me and I have indeed said it.
Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 907; Mizan ul Hikmah page No. 945 link
It does not matter if you change the order of the words of a tradition, as long as you render its meaning [exactly].
Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 29179; Mizan ul Hikmah page No. 946 link
Do not narrate to my people from my traditions except those which are perceptible to their intellects
Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 29284; Mizan ul Hikmah page No. 946 link
Whoever transmits to my people one tradition by which a practice is established or a heresy is blocked, will enter Paradise
Bihar al-Anwar, v. 2, p. 152, no. 43; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 942 link
Truly our tradition enlivens the hearts
Bihar al-Anwar, p. 144, no. 5; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 942 link
Indeed one true tradition that you receive from a truthful person is better for you than the whole world and all that it contains.
Amali al-Mufid, p. 42, no. 10; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 942 link
Know the people's positions with respect to us through the amount of their narration of our traditions
Bihar al-Anwar, v. 2, p. 150, no. 24; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 943 link
O Allah! Have mercy on my ambassadors' thrice. He was asked, 'O Messenger of Allah! Who are your ambassadors?' He said, 'Those who learn my traditions and practices, and then teach them to my community.
Amali al-Saduq, p. 152, no. 4; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 943 link
The narrator of traditions who understands religion is better than a thousand worshippers who have neither understanding of religion nor knowledge of traditions
Bihar al-Anwar, v. 2, p. 150, no. 24; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 943 link
Whoever memorizes forty traditions from which my community benefits in their religious affairs, Allah will raise him on the Day of Resurrection as a learned jurist and a scholar.
Bihar al-Anwar, p. 156, no. 10; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 943 link
Imam Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali [a] said
Your aim must be to understand [the traditions] rather than just narrating [them].
Kanz al-Fawa' id li al-Karajiki, v. 2, p. 31; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 944 link
Imam Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali [a] said
The ambition of the foolish is to report [traditions] whereas the ambition of the scholars is to understand the traditions
Bihar al-Anwar, v. 2, p. 160, no. 13; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 944 link
One tradition that you understand is better than a thousand traditions that you merely narrate
Ma`ani al-Akhbar, p. 2, no. 3; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 944 link
Whoever deliberately ascribes lies to me, let him take his seat in the Fire
Amali al-Tusi, p. 227, no. 398; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 944 link
Whoever rejects a tradition that is transmitted to him on my authority will have me to contend with on the Day of Resurrection. So when you hear a tradition from me that you do not know, say: "Allah knows better."
Bihar al-Anwar, v. 2, p. 212, no. 114; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 945 link
The traditions that do not correspond with the Qur'an are false
al-Kafi, v. 1, p. 69, no. 4; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 945 link
Whenever a tradition from the household of Muhammad - peace be upon them all is transmitted to you, towards which your hearts lean and it seems familiar to you, accept it. And whatever your hearts resent and you reject, then refer it back to Allah and the Prophet and the scholar from the household of Muhammad (SAWA).
Bihar al-Anwar, v. 2, p. 189, no. 21; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 945 link
Whenever a tradition is transmitted to you from me that agrees with the truth, then I have truly said it, and whatever tradition is transmitted to you from me which does not agree with the truth, then I have not said it, for I speak nothing but the truth.
Ma`ani al-Akhbar, p. 390, no. 30; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 946 link
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