Al-Kāfi - The Book on Virtue of Knowledge

Al-Kāfi - The Book on Virtue of Knowledge Chapter: Chapter on the quality of knowledge its virtue and the virtue of the scholars َدُ بْنُ إِدْرِيسَ عَنْ ٠َّدِ بْنِ حَسَّانَ عَنْ إِدْرِيسَ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ الْكِنْدِيِّ عَنْ بَشِيرٍ الدَّهَّانِ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠َنْ لا يَتَفَقَّهُ ٠ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا يَا بَشِيرُ إِنَّ الرَّجُلَ ٠ْ يَسْتَغْنِ بِفِقْهِهِ احْتَاجَ إِلَيْهِ٠ْ فَإِذَا احْتَاجَ إِلَيْهِ٠ْ أَدْخَلُوهُ فِي بَابِ ضَلالَتِهِ٠ْ وَهُوَ لا يَعْلَ٠6.

Ahmad ibn Idris has narrated from Muhammad ibn Hassa’n from Idris ibn al-Hassan from abu Ishaq al-Kindi from Bashir al-Dahhan that Abu ‘Abdillah (al-Sadiq) (as) said: 'There is no goodness in our people who do not learn fiqh (jurisprudence), oh Bashir. Indeed, when a man from them does not suffice himself with [knowledge] of fiqh, he becomes dependent on them (i.e. the non-shias).

And when he becomes dependent on them, they lead him into the door of their misguidance, and he does not know.' يخرجه - Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi (Sahih al-Kafi) ضعيف - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (1/107))