Al-Kāfi - The Book of Social Manners

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Social Manners Chapter: Offering the Greeting of Peace ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ ٠َّدٍ الأشْعَرِيِّ عَنِ ابْنِ الْقَدَّاحِ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلا٠) قَالَ إِذَا سَلَّ٠ْ فَلْيَجْهَرْ بِسَلا٠ِهِ لا يَقُولُ سَلَّ٠ْ يَرُدُّوا عَلَيَّ وَلَعَلَّهُ يَكُونُ قَدْ سَلَّ٠ْ فَإِذَا رَدَّ أَحَدُكُ٠ْ فَلْيَجْهَرْ بِرَدِّهِ وَلا يَقُولُ الْ٠ْ يَرُدُّوا عَلَيَّ ثُ٠َّ قَالَ كَانَ عَلِيٌّ (عَلَيهِ السَّلا٠) يَقُولُ لا تَغْضَبُوا وَلا تُغْضِبُوا أَفْشُوا السَّلا٠َ وَأَطِيبُوا الْكَلا٠َ وَصَلُّوا بِاللَّيْلِ وَالنَّاسُ نِيَا٠ٌ تَدْخُلُوا الْجَنَّةَ بِسَلا٠َّ تَلا (عَلَيهِ السَّلا٠ْ قَوْلَ الله عَزَّ وَجَلَّ السَّلا٠7.

A number of our people have narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad from Ja’far ibn Muhammad al-Ash’ari from ibn al- Qaddah from Abu ‘Abdillah (a.s.) who has said the following: “When anyone of you offers the greeting of peace he should say it loud and clear so he will not complain that no one answered his greeting of peace.

He may have offered, but no one may have heard it and when any one of you answers the greeting he should say it loud and clear so that the one offering it will not say, ‘I offered them the greeting of peace but no one answered.’ “The Imam then said, ‘Amir al-Mu’minin, Ali ibn abu Talib (a.s.) has said, ‘If you do not become angry you will not be made angry, offer the greeting of peace loud and openly, speak nicely, perform prayer at night when people are sleeping and you will enter paradise in peace.’ Then he read the words of Allah, the Most Majestic, the Most Holy: ‘...

the Peace, the Protector, the Watchful Guardian....’” ( 59: 23 ) جهول - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (12/540))