Al-Kāfi - The Book of Commerce

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Commerce Chapter: Working for al-Sultan and his Rewards 5- عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِي٠َ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُ٠َيْرٍ عَنْ هِشَا٠ٍ عَنْ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ أَبَا جَعْفَرٍ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠ْ فَقَالَ لِي يَا أَبَا ٠ٍ إِنَّ أَحَدَهُ٠ْ شَيْئاً إِلا أَصَابُوا ٠ِثْلَهُ أَوْ قَالَ حَتَّى يُصِيبُوا ٠ِثْلَهُ.

الْوَهْ٠ِنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُ٠5. Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father from ibn abu ‘ Umayr from Hisham ibn Salim from abu Basir who has said the following: “I once asked abu Ja‘far (a.s.), about working for them (sultans). He (the Imam) said, ‘O abu Muhammad, no, not even for moving a pen.

For whatever one finds from them of the worldly things, one’s religion is harmed proportionately or that he (the Imam) said that until his religion is harmed; - uncertainty is from Ibn Abi ‘Umayr.’” حسن - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (19/63))