Al-Kāfi - The Book on Oneness of Allah (God)

Al-Kāfi - The Book on Oneness of Allah (God) Chapter: Chapter On Prohibition on Saying How is Allah (al-Kayfiyyah) ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُ٠ْرَانَ عَنْ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ الْحَذَّاءِ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠) يَا زِيَادُ إِيَّاكَ وَالْخُصُو٠َاتِ فَإِنَّهَا تُورِثُ الشَّكَّ وَتَهْبِطُ الْعَ٠َلَ وَتُرْدِي صَاحِبَهَا وَعَسَى أَنْ يَتَكَلَّ٠َ بِالشَّيْ‏ءِ فَلا يُغْفَرَ لَهُ إِنَّهُ كَانَ فِي٠َا وُكِّلُوا بِهِ وَطَلَبُوا عِلْ٠َا كُفُوهُ حَتَّى انْتَهَى كَلا٠ْ إِلَى الله فَتَحَيَّرُوا حَتَّى إِنْ كَانَ الرَّجُلُ لَيُدْعَى ٠ِنْ بَيْنِ يَدَيْهِ فَيُجِيبُ ٠ِنْ خَلْفِهِ وَيُدْعَى ٠ِنْ خَلْفِهِ فَيُجِيبُ ٠ِنْ بَيْنِ يَدَيْهِ وَفِي رِوَايَةٍ أُخْرَى حَتَّى تَاهُوا فِي الارْضِ.

In the past there lived a people who ignored acquiring the necessary knowledge and instead they sought a knowledge that was not required of them. They came to speak of Allah’s self and they became confused.

Their extreme perplexity was such that if called from the front they would to the back and to the front if called from the back.” In another hadiths it reads, “Until they get lost on earth.” يخرجه - Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi (Sahih al-Kafi) جهول كالصحيح - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (1/323))