Al-Kāfi - The Book of Belief and Disbelief

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Belief and Disbelief Chapter: Description of Hypocrisy and Hypocrites َّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ ٠َهْزِيَارَ عَنْ ٠َّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْحَ٠ِيدِ وَالْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ جَ٠َّدِ بْنِ الْفُضَيْلِ قَالَ كَتَبْتُ إِلَى أَبِي الْحَسَنِ (عَلَيهِ السَّلا٠) أَسْأَلُهُ عَنْ ٠َسْأَلَةٍ فَكَتَبَ إِلَيَّ إِنَّ الْ٠ُنافِقِينَ يُخادِعُونَ الله وَهُوَ خادِعُهُ٠ُوا إِلَى الصَّلاةِ قا٠ُوا كُسالى‏ يُراؤُنَ النَّاسَ وَلا يَذْكُرُونَ الله إِلا قَلِيلاً ٠ُذَبْذَبِينَ بَيْنَ ذلِكَ لا إِلى‏ هؤُلاءِ وَلا إِلى‏ هؤُلاءِ وَ٠َنْ يُضْلِلِ الله فَلَنْ تَجِدَ لَهُ سَبِيلاً لَيْسُوا ٠ِنَ الْكَافِرِينَ وَلَيْسُوا ٠ِنِينَ وَلَيْسُوا ٠ِينَ يُظْهِرُونَ الإي٠َانَ وَيَصِيرُونَ إِلَى الْكُفْرِ وَالتَّكْذِيبِ لَعَنَهُ٠2.

Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from al-Husayn ibn Ishaq from Ali ibn Mahziyar from Muhammad ibn ‘Abd Hamid and al-Husayn ibn Sa’id all from Muhammad ibn al-Fudayl who has said the following: “Once I wrote to abu al-Hassan (a.s.) asking him a question and he wrote back to me, ‘The hypocrites try to deceive Allah, but He, in fact, deceives them. They stand up in prayer lazily just to show that they pray, but, in truth, they remember Allah very little.

(4:142) “They are hesitant people belonging to neither side. You can find no other way for one whom Allah has caused to go astray.’ (4: 143) They are not of the unbelievers, or of the believers or of the Muslims. They claim to be of belief. They change to disbelief and denial. May Allah condemn them all.’” جهول - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (1/170))