So he -asws said: ‘If Allah -azwj were to Differentiate between the truth and the falsehood, in which of these two (categories) would (these games) fall into’. I said, ‘With the falsehood’. He -asws said: ‘So what is it to you with the falsehood’.
Sahl, from Muhammad Bin Isa, from Yunus, from Al Husayn Bin Umar Bin Yazeed, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah -asws having said: ‘Allah -azwj Forgives during the Month of Ramazan (every one) except for three – the partaken of an intoxicant, or a player of the two kings (Chess), or a bickerer’.
[10] عَنْهُ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ يُونُسَ عَنْ أَبِي أَيُّوبَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ جُنْدَبٍ عَمَّنْ أَخْبَرَهُ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ الشِّطْرَنْجُ مَيْسِرٌ وَ النَّرْدُ مَيْسِرٌ . From him, from Muhammad Bin Isa, from Yunus, from Abu Ayoub, from Abdullah Bin Jundab, from the one who informed him, Abu Abdullah -asws has said: ‘The chess is gambling, and the dice is gambling’.
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Hammad Bin Isa who said, ‘A man from the (people of) Al-Basra came over to Abu Al-Hassan -asws the 1st so he said to him -asws , ‘May I be sacrificed for you -asws ! I sit with a people who are playing with the chess, and I do not play with it, but I (just) look’.
So he -asws said: ‘What is it to you and a gathering which Allah -azwj does not Look at its people?’ [12] عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ هَارُونَ بْنِ مُسْلِمٍ عَنْ مَسْعَدَةَ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) أَنَّهُ سُئِلَ عَنِ الشِّطْرَنْجِ فَقَالَ دَعُوا الْمَجُوسِيَّةَ لِأَهْلِهَا لَعَنَهَا اللَّهُ .
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from Haroun Bin Muslim, from Mas’ada Bin Ziyad, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah -asws having been asked about the chess, so he -asws said: ‘Leave the Magian thing to its people, may Allah -azwj Curse it’.