Al-Kāfi - The Book on Virtue of Knowledge

Al-Kāfi - The Book on Virtue of Knowledge Chapter: Prohibition on Speaking without Knowledge. ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ الْوَشَّاءِ عَنْ أَبَانٍ الاحْ٠َرِ عَنْ زِيَادِ بْنِ أَبِي رَجَاءٍ عَنْ ابي جعفر (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠ُوا فَقُولُوا الله أَعْلَ٠ُ إِنَّ الرَّجُلَ لَيَنْتَزِعُ الايَةَ ٠ِنَ الْقُرْآنِ يَخِرُّ فِيهَا أَبْعَدَ ٠4.

A number of our people has narrated has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Khalid from al-Hassan ibn Ali al-Washshi’ from Aban al-Ahmar from Ziyad ibn abu Raja’ from abu Ja’far (a.s.) who has said the following. “What you know you may speak it up but what you do not know say, ‘Allah knows best’.

A man refers to a verse in the holy Quran and gives it a meaning that is farther from the truth than the heavens are from earth.” وثق - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (1/137)) صحيح - Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi (Sahih al-Kafi (5/ 1))