Al-Kāfi - The Book of Belief and Disbelief

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Belief and Disbelief Chapter: Paganism Considering Things as Partners of Allah 1ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِي٠َّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ يُونُسَ عَنْ بُرَيْدٍ الْعِجْلِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ (عَلَيهِ السَّلا٠) قَالَ سَأَلْتُهُ عَنْ أَدْنَى ٠َا يَكُونُ الْعَبْدُ بِهِ ٠ُشْرِكاً قَالَ فَقَالَ ٠َنْ قَالَ لِلنَّوَاةِ إِنَّهَا حَصَاةٌ وَلِلْحَصَاةِ إِنَّهَا نَوَاةٌ ثُ٠1.

Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from Muhammad ibn ‘Isa from Yunus from Burayd al-‘Ijli who has said the following: “Once I asked abu Ja’far (a.s.) of the minimum amount of belief with which one is considered a polytheist (one who considers other things as partners of Allah). The narrator has said that the Imam said, ‘It is he who calls a nut a pebble and a pebble a nut and considers it his religion.

’” صحيح - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (1/173))