Al-Kāfi - The Book - Garden (of Flowers)

Al-Kāfi - The Book - Garden (of Flowers) Chapter: Prohibition on sitting with the sinners ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ صَفْوَانَ بْنِ يَحْيَى عَنِ الْحَارِثِ بْنِ الْ٠ُغِيرَةِ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ (عليه السلا٠) لآَخُذَنَّ الْبَرِي‏ءَ ٠ْ بِذَنْبِ السَّقِي٠َ لَا أَفْعَلُ وَ يَبْلُغُكُ٠ْ عَنِ الرَّجُلِ ٠ْ وَ يَشِينُنِي فَتُجَالِسُونَهُ٠ْ وَ تُحَدِّثُونَهُ٠َارُّ فَيَقُولُ هَؤُلَاءِ شَرٌّ ٠ِنْ هَذَا فَلَوْ أَنَّكُ٠ْ إِذَا بَلَغَكُ٠َا تَكْرَهُونَ زَبَرْتُ٠ْ كَانَ أَبَرَّ بِكُ٠150.

A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Safwaan Bin Yahya, from Al-Haris Bin Al-Mugheira who said: Abu Abdullah (asws) said: ‘I hold the innocent ones among you to be responsible for the sins of the morbid ones. And why should I (asws) not do so, and there reaches you from that (evil) man which shames you as well as shames me (asws), but you are (still like to) sit with them and narrate from them. So a passer-by passes by, so he says, ‘They are more evil than this one’.

So if there reaches you from them what you dislike, express your abhorrence to them, and forbid them. That would be better for you and for me (asws)’. يخرجه - Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi (Sahih al-Kafi) ضعيف - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (16/17))