Al-Kāfi - The Book of Belief and Disbelief

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Belief and Disbelief ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ ٠َحْبُوبٍ عَنْ دَاوُدَ بْنِ كَثِيرٍ الرَّقِّيِّ قَالَ قُلْتُ لأبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلا٠) سُنَنُ رَسُولِ الله (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وآلِه) كَفَرَائِضِ الله عَزَّ وَجَلَّ فَقَالَ إِنَّ الله عَزَّ وَجَلَّ فَرَضَ فَرَائِضَ ٠ُوجَبَاتٍ عَلَى الْعِبَادِ فَ٠َنْ تَرَكَ فَرِيضَةً ٠َلْ بِهَا وَجَحَدَهَا كَانَ كَافِراً وَأَ٠َرَ رَسُولُ الله بِأُ٠ُورٍ كُلُّهَا حَسَنَةٌ فَلَيْسَ ٠َنْ تَرَكَ بَعْضَ ٠َرَ الله عَزَّ وَجَلَّ بِهِ عِبَادَهُ ٠ِنَ الطَّاعَةِ بِكَافِرٍ وَلَكِنَّهُ تَارِكٌ لِلْفَضْلِ ٠1.

A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from al- Hassan ibn Mahbub from Dawud ibn Kathir al-Raqqi who has said the following: “Once I asked Abu ‘Abdillah (a.s.) ‘Are the traditions, Sunan of the Messenger of Allah like the obligations Allah, the Most Majestic, the Most Holy, has sanctioned?’ The Imam said, ‘Allah, the Most Majestic, the Most Holy, has sanctioned obligations that are compulsory for the servants (of Allah).

Whoever ignores an obligation of the compulsory ones; does not perform it and rejects it, he becomes an unbeliever. The Messenger of Allah has commanded certain matters to be performed and they all are good deeds.

One does not become an unbeliever for ignoring a few of the obligations that Allah, the Most Majestic, the Most Holy, has commanded His servant to perform, however, he has ignored a virtue and has cut down goodness.’” ختلف فيه وصحته أرجح عند ي - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (11/108))