Al-Kāfi - The Book of Belief and Disbelief

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Belief and Disbelief Chapter: Obeying the Creature in Disobedience to the Creator 3ـ عَنْهُ عَنْ شَرِيفِ بْنِ سَابِقٍ عَنِ الْفَضْلِ بْنِ أَبِي قُرَّةَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلا٠) قَالَ كَتَبَ رَجُلٌ إِلَى الْحُسَيْنِ (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وآلِه) عِظْنِي بِحَرْفَيْنِ فَكَتَبَ إِلَيْهِ ٠َعْصِيَةِ الله كَانَ أَفْوَتَ لِ٠َا يَرْجُو وَأَسْرَعَ لِ٠3.

It is narrated from him (narrator of the Hadith above) from Sharif ibn Sabiq from al-Fadl ibn Abu Qurrah from Abu Qurrah from Abu ‘Abdillah (a.s.) who has said the following: “Once, a man wrote al-Husayn (a.s.) asking, ‘Instruct me with good advice in two letters.’ The Imam wrote back to him, ‘Whoever seeks to acquire something by means of what angers Allah (his deed as such) will be most harmful to his hopes and most hastening to the coming of that which frightens him.’” ضعيف - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (11/69))