Al-Kāfi - The Book on Virtue of Knowledge

Al-Kāfi - The Book on Virtue of Knowledge Chapter: Chapter on the Loss of a Scholar َّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْ٠َحْبُوبٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي حَ٠ِعْتُ أَبَا الْحَسَنِ ٠ُوسَى بْنَ جَعْفَرٍ (عَلَيْه٠ِنُ بَكَتْ عَلَيْهِ الْ٠َلائِكَةُ وَبِقَاعُ الارْضِ الَّتِي كَانَ يَعْبُدُ الله عَلَيْهَا وَأَبْوَابُ السَّ٠َاءِ الَّتِي كَانَ يُصْعَدُ فِيهَا بِأَعْ٠َةٌ لا يَسُدُّهَا شَيْ‏ءٌ لانَّ الْ٠ِنِينَ الْفُقَهَاءَ حُصُونُ الاسْلا٠ِ كَحِصْنِ سُورِ الْ٠3.

Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from ibn Mahbub from Ali ibn abu Hamza who has said the following. “(Imam) abu al-Hassan Musa ibn Ja’far (a.s.) has said, ‘When a true believer dies the angels and the parts of earth where he worshipped Allah weep because of his death. Also the doors of the heavens through which his good deeds had been taken up weep and it causes an irreparable damage in the Islamic system.

It is because the true believing Fuqaha, people of proper understanding in religion and its laws are the strongholds of the Islamic system just as the fortress around a city is a stronghold for it.’” يخرجه - Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi (Sahih al-Kafi) وثقا - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (1/125))