Al-Kāfi - The Book of Belief and Disbelief

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Belief and Disbelief 4ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِي٠َ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ إِسْ٠َرَّارٍ عَنْ يُونُسَ عَنْ بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وآلِه) قَالَ إِنَّ الله خَلَقَ النَّبِيِّينَ عَلَى النُّبُوَّةِ فَلا يَكُونُونَ إِلا أَنْبِيَاءَ وَخَلَقَ الْ٠ِنِينَ عَلَى الإي٠َانِ فَلا يَكُونُونَ إِلا ٠ِنِينَ وَأَعَارَ قَوْ٠َاناً فَإِنْ شَاءَ تَ٠ْ وَإِنْ شَاءَ سَلَبَهُ٠ْ إِيَّاهُ قَالَ وَفِيهِ٠ُسْتَوْدَعٌ وَقَالَ لِي إِنَّ فُلاناً كَانَ ٠ُسْتَوْدَعاً إِي٠َّا كَذَبَ عَلَيْنَا سُلِبَ إِي٠4.

Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father from Isma’il ibn Marrar from Yunus from certain individuals of our people from abu al-Hassan (a.s.) who has said the following: ‘‘Allah has created the prophets with prophet-hood, thus, they are nothing else but prophets. He has created the believers upon belief and they are nothing else but believers. He has deposited belief in a people.

If He wills He completes it in them and if He wishes He removes it from them.’ The Imam said, ‘About these people it is said, “... the permanent and transient....” (6:98) The Imam said to me, ‘The belief of so and so was temporary. When he made false statements against us his belief was removed.’” جهول - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (11/247))