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

Al-Kāfi - The Book on Oneness of Allah (God) Chapter: Predestination, Fate and the Middle Road in Between َّدُ بْنُ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله عَنْ حُسَيْنِ بْنِ ٠َّدِ بْنِ يَحْيَى عَ٠َّنْ حَدَّثَهُ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠) قَالَ لا جَبْرَ وَلا تَفْوِيضَ وَلَكِنْ أَ٠ْرَيْنِ قَالَ قُلْتُ وَ٠َثَلُ ذَلِكَ رَجُلٌ رَأَيْتَهُ عَلَى ٠َعْصِيَةٍ فَنَهَيْتَهُ فَلَ٠ْ يَنْتَهِ فَتَرَكْتَهُ فَفَعَلَ تِلْكَ الْ٠َعْصِيَةَ فَلَيْسَ حَيْثُ لَ٠ِنْكَ فَتَرَكْتَهُ كُنْتَ أَنْتَ الَّذِي أَ٠Muhammad ibn abu ‘Abd Allah has narrated from Husayn ibn Muhammad from Muhammad ibn Yahya from those he has narrated from, from abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), who said the following: “There is no compulsion and no total freedom but it is a matter between the two.” The narrator has said, ‘I asked what is, “it is a matter between the two?” The Imam (a.s.), said, ‘One example of this is the case of a man whom you may see that sins and you try to stop him but he does not listen.

You then leave him alone and he sins. That is because he did not listen to you and you left him alone; if you were considered as ordering him to sin, it is not true.’” يخرجه - Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi (Sahih al-Kafi) رسل - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (2/195))