Al-Kāfi - The Book of Belief and Disbelief

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Belief and Disbelief Chapter: Sins Committed From Time to Time (al-Lamam) 1ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِي٠َ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُ٠َيْرٍ عَنْ أَبِي أَيُّوبَ عَنْ ٠ٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلا٠) قَالَ قُلْتُ لَهُ أَ رَأَيْتَ قَوْلَ الله عَزَّ وَجَلَّ الَّذِينَ يَجْتَنِبُونَ كَبائِرَ الإثْ٠ِ وَالْفَواحِشَ إِلا اللَّ٠َ قَالَ هُوَ الذَّنْبُ يُلِ٠ُّ بِهِ الرَّجُلُ فَيَ٠1.

Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father from Ibn Abi ‘Umayr from abu Ayyub from Muhammad ibn Muslim who has said the following: “Once I said to Abu ‘Abdillah (a.s.) ‘How do you consider the words of Allah, the Most Majestic, the Most Holy, “...

those who avoid major sins and indecent acts except al-Lamam (sins committed from time to time)....” (53:33) The Imam said, ‘It is the sin that one may commit then stops it, as Allah wills, and then commits it again.” حسن كالصحيح - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (11/316))