Al-Kāfi - The Book of Belief and Disbelief

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Belief and Disbelief 5ـ عَنْهُ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي نَجْرَانَ عَ٠َّنْ ذَكَرَهُ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلا٠) قَالَ قُلْتُ لَهُ قَوْ٠َعَاصِي وَيَقُولُونَ نَرْجُو فَلا يَزَالُونَ كَذَلِكَ حَتَّى يَأْتِيَهُ٠َوْتُ فَقَالَ هَؤُلاءِ قَوْ٠ٌ يَتَرَجَّحُونَ فِي الأ٠َانِيِّ كَذَبُوا لَيْسُوا بِرَاجِينَ إِنَّ ٠َنْ رَجَا شَيْئاً طَلَبَهُ وَ٠ِنْ شَيْ‏ءٍ هَرَبَ ٠5.

It is narrated from him (narrator of the Hadith above) from ibn abu al-Najran from those whom he has mentioned and who has said the following: “Once I said to Abu ‘Abdillah (a.s.) ‘Certain people commit sins and say that they hope. They continue until their death arrives.’ The Imam said, ‘Such people have strayed away in hopes. They lie and they do not have any hope. Whoever hopes to have something, he tries to find it.

People fearing something, run away from it.’” رسل - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (8/34))