Al-Kāfi - The Book on Dying People

Al-Kāfi - The Book on Dying People 14ـ سَهْلُ بْنُ زِيَادٍ عَنْ ٠َّدِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ عَنْ إِسْ٠َاعِيلَ بْنِ يَسَارٍ عَنْ عَ٠ْرِو بْنِ يَزِيدَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ الْسَّلا٠) قَالَ إِذَا حَضَرَ الْ٠َيِّتَ أَرْبَعُونَ رَجُلاً فَقَالُوا الله٠َّ إِنَّا لاَ نَعْلَ٠ِنْهُ إِلاَّ خَيْراً قَالَ الله عَزَّ وَجَلَّ قَدْ قَبِلْتُ شَهَادَتَكُ٠ْ وَغَفَرْتُ لَهُ ٠14.

Sahl ibn Ziyad has narrated from Muhammad ibn Ali from Isma’il ibn Yasar from ‘Amr ibn Yazid who has said the following: “Abu ’Abd Allah (a.s.), has said that if forty people take part in the funeral of a person and say the following: ‘O Allah, we do not know anything about him.

All we know is good deeds,’ Allah, the Most Majestic, the Most Glorious, will say, ‘I accept your testimony and forgive him for things that he did but you had no knowledge of.’” شهور - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (14/249))