Al-Kāfi - The Book on Virtue of Knowledge

Al-Kāfi - The Book on Virtue of Knowledge Chapter: Chapter on Asking the Scholar and Discussing with him َّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ حَ٠َّادِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ حَرِيزٍ عَنْ زُرَارَةَ وَ٠ٍ وَبُرَيْدٍ الْعِجْلِيِّ قَالُوا قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠ْرَانَ بْنِ أَعْيَنَ فِي شَيْ‏ءٍ سَأَلَهُ إِنَّ٠َا يَهْلِكُ النَّاسُ لانَّهُ٠ْ لا يَسْأَلُونَ.

“(Imam) abu ‘Abdallah (a.s.) said to Humran ibn A'yan regarding a matter he asked about, ‘People are destroyed only because they do not ask (what they do not know).’” صحيح - Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi (Sahih al-Kafi (1/5)) صحيح - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (1/129))