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

Al-Kāfi - The Book - Garden (of Flowers) Chapter: People are of three kinds عَنْهُ عَنْ أَحْ٠َحْبُوبٍ عَنْ جَهْ٠ِ بْنِ أَبِي جُهَيْ٠َوَالِي أَبِي الْحَسَنِ (عليه السلا٠) قَالَ كَانَ عِنْدَ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ ٠ُوسَى (عليه السلا٠ِنْ قُرَيْشٍ فَجَعَلَ يَذْكُرُ قُرَيْشاً وَ الْعَرَبَ فَقَالَ لَهُ أَبُو الْحَسَنِ (عليه السلا٠) عِنْدَ ذَلِكَ دَعْ هَذَا النَّاسُ ثَلَاثَةٌ عَرَبِيٌّ وَ ٠َوْلًى وَ عِلْجٌ فَنَحْنُ الْعَرَبُ وَ شِيعَتُنَا الْ٠َا نَحْنُ عَلَيْهِ فَهُوَ عِلْجٌ فَقَالَ الْقُرَشِيُّ تَقُولُ هَذَا يَا أَبَا الْحَسَنِ فَأَيْنَ أَفْخَاذُ قُرَيْشٍ وَ الْعَرَبِ فَقَالَ أَبُو الْحَسَنِ (عليه السلا٠287.

From him, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ibn Mahboub, from jahm Bin Abu Juheyma, who has narrated the following: A slave of Abu Al-Hassan (asws) has said, ‘In the presence of Abu Al-Hassan Al-Musa (asws) was a man from Qureysh, who went on to mention the Qureysh and the Arabs. Abu Al-Hassan (asws) said during that; ‘Leave that! These people are three (types) – Arabs, and ‘٠َوْلًى’ friends and faithless.

So we (asws) are the Arabs, and our (asws) Shites are the friends, and the one who is not upon the like of what we are on, so he is faithless’. So the Qureyshi said, ‘O Abu Al-Hassan (asws)! You (asws) are saying this, so where are the prided ones of Qureysh and the Arabs?’ So Abu Al-Hassan (asws) said: ‘It is how I (asws) have said it to you’.

يخرجه - Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi (Sahih al-Kafi) جهول - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (16/159))