[11] The Categories of people عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ...
[11] The Categories of people عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَسْبَاطٍ عَنْ سُلَيْمٍ مَوْلَى طِرْبَالٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي هِشَامٌ عَنْ حَمْزَةَ بْنِ الطَّيَّارِ قَالَ قَالَ لِي أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) النَّاسُ عَلَى سِتَّةِ أَصْنَافٍ قَالَ قُلْتُ أَ تَأْذَنُ لِي أَنْ أَكْتُبَهَا قَالَ نَعَمْ قُلْتُ مَا أَكْتُبُ قَالَ اكْتُبْ أَهْلَ الْوَعِيدِ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْجَنَّةِ وَ أَهْلِ النَّارِ وَ اكْتُبْ وَ آخَرُونَ اعْتَرَفُوا بِذُنُوبِهِمْ خَلَطُوا عَمَلًا صالِحاً وَ آخَرَ سَيِّئاً قَالَ قُلْتُ مَنْ هَؤُلَاءِ قَالَ وَحْشِيٌّ مِنْهُمْ قَالَ وَ اكْتُبْ وَ آخَرُونَ مُرْجَوْنَ لِأَمْرِ اللَّهِ إِمَّا يُعَذِّبُهُمْ وَ إِمَّا يَتُوبُ عَلَيْهِمْ A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Ali Bin Asbaat, from Suleym a slave of Tarbaal who said, ‘Hisham narrated to me, from Hamza Bin Al-Tayyar who said, ‘Abu Abdullah -asws said to me: ‘The people are upon three categories’.
I said, ‘Would you -asws permit me that I write this down?’ He -asws said: ‘Yes’. I said, ‘What shall I write?’ He -asws said: ‘The Promised people would be from the inhabitants of the Paradise and the inhabitants of the Fire. And write [9:102] And others have confessed their sins, they have mingled a good deed and an evil one; maybe Allah will Turn to them (Mercifully) ’.
قَالَ وَ اكْتُبْ إِلَّا الْمُسْتَضْعَفِينَ مِنَ الرِّجالِ وَ النِّساءِ وَ الْوِلْدانِ لا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ حِيلَةً وَ لا يَهْتَدُونَ سَبِيلًا لَا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ حِيلَةً إِلَى الْكُفْرِ وَ لَا يَهْتَدُونَ سَبِيلًا إِلَى الْإِيمَانِ فَأُولئِكَ عَسَى اللَّهُ أَنْ يَعْفُوَ عَنْهُمْ He -asws said: ‘And write [4:98] Except the weak from among the men and the children who have not in their power the means nor can they find a way (to escape) [4:99] So these, it may be, Allah will Pardon them ’.
قَالَ وَ اكْتُبْ أَصْحَابَ الْأَعْرَافِ قَالَ قُلْتُ وَ مَا أَصْحَابُ الْأَعْرَافِ قَالَ قَوْمٌ اسْتَوَتْ حَسَنَاتُهُمْ وَ سَيِّئَاتُهُمْ فَإِنْ أَدْخَلَهُمُ النَّارَ فَبِذُنُوبِهِمْ وَ إِنْ أَدْخَلَهُمُ الْجَنَّةَ فَبِرَحْمَتِهِ . He -asws said: ‘And write [7:48] And the people of Al-Araf ’. I said, ‘And what are the people of Al-Araf?’ He -asws said: ‘A people whose good deeds and their evils deeds would be equal.
So if they were to be entered into the Fire, it would be due to their sins, and if they were to be entered into the Paradise, it would be due to His -azwj Mercy’.
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