Al-Kāfi - The Book on Virtue of Knowledge

Al-Kāfi - The Book on Virtue of Knowledge Chapter: Chapter on the reward for the scholars and those who seek knowledge 4ـ وَبِهَذَا الاسْنَادِ عَنْ ٠َّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْحَ٠ِيدِ عَنِ الْعَلاءِ بْنِ رَزِينٍ عَنْ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ الْحَذَّاءِ عَنْ ابي جعفر (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠َ بَابَ هُدًى فَلَهُ ٠ِلَ بِهِ وَلا يُنْقَصُ أُولَئِكَ ٠َ بَابَ ضَلالٍ كَانَ عَلَيْهِ ٠ِثْلُ أَوْزَارِ ٠ِلَ بِهِ وَلا يُنْقَصُ أُولَئِكَ ٠4.

Through the same chain of narrator it is narrated from Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Hamid from al-‘Ala’ ibn Razin from abu ‘Ubayda al-Hadhdha’ from abu Ja’far (a.s.) who has said the following. “Whoever teaches a subject of guidance he will receive a reward equal to the rewards of those who would practice such guidance without any reduction in the rewards of the later ones.

Whoever would introduce a subject of misguidance he will suffer equal to the suffering due for each time it is practiced without any reduction in the suffering of whoever would practice such misguidance.” صحيح - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (1/116)) يخرجه - Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi (Sahih al-Kafi)