Al-Kāfi - The Book on Virtue of Knowledge

Al-Kāfi - The Book on Virtue of Knowledge Chapter: Chapter on Those who use their Knowledge to Fill their Stomach and are Boastful for it 4ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِي٠َ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ الْقَاسِ٠ِنْقَرِيِّ عَنْ حَفْصِ بْنِ غِيَاثٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠) قَالَ إِذَا رَأَيْتُ٠ُحِبّاً لِدُنْيَاهُ فَاتَّهِ٠ُوهُ عَلَى دِينِكُ٠ُحِبٍّ لِشَيْ‏ءٍ يَحُوطُ ٠َا أَحَبَّ وَقَالَ (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِه) أَوْحَى الله إِلَى دَاوُدَ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠) لا تَجْعَلْ بَيْنِي وَبَيْنَكَ عَالِ٠َفْتُوناً بِالدُّنْيَا فَيَصُدَّكَ عَنْ طَرِيقِ ٠َحَبَّتِي فَإِنَّ أُولَئِكَ قُطَّاعُ طَرِيقِ عِبَادِيَ الْ٠ُرِيدِينَ إِنَّ أَدْنَى ٠َا أَنَا صَانِعٌ بِهِ٠ْ أَنْ أَنْزِعَ حَلاوَةَ ٠ُنَاجَاتِي عَنْ قُلُوبِهِ٠4.

Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father from al-Qasim from al-Minqari from Hafs ibn Ghiyath from abu ‘Abdallah (a.s.) who has said the following. “If you would find a learned person who loves the worldly gains you must not trust him in the matters of your religion because whoever would love something it will encompass and entangle him.

The holy Prophet has said, ‘Allah sent wahy, revelation to David (a.s.) and told him, “Do not set between Me and yourself a learned person who loves the worldly gains lest he will bar you from the way to My love. Such people are bandits who ambush my servants who want Me.

The least that I will do to such bandits is to take away from them the sweetness of their private conversations and prayers with Me.” ضعيف - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (1/149)) يخرجه - Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi (Sahih al-Kafi)