قَالَ فَبِأَيِّ شَيْءٍ تَقْضِي He -asws said: ‘So by which thing do you judge?
قَالَ فَبِأَيِّ شَيْءٍ تَقْضِي He -asws said: ‘So by which thing do you judge?’ قَالَ بِمَا بَلَغَنِي عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ عَنْ أَبِي بَكْرٍ وَ عُمَرَ He said, ‘With whatever has reached me from Rasool-Allah -saww , and from Abu Bakr and Umar’. قَالَ فَبَلَغَكَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص قَالَ أَقْضَاكُمْ عَلِيٌّ He -asws said: ‘Has it reached you that Rasool-Allah -saww had said that your most judicial is Ali -asws ?’ قَالَ نَعَمْ He said, ‘Yes’.
قَالَ فَكَيْفَ تَقْضِي بِغَيْرِ قَضَاءِ عَلِيٍّ ع وَ قَدْ بَلَغَكَ هَذَا He -asws said: ‘So how come you are judging with other than the judgment of Ali -asws , and this has reached you?’ قَالَ فَاصْفَرَّ وَجْهُ ابْنِ أَبِي لَيْلَى ثُمَّ قَالَ الْتَمِسْ لِنَفْسِكَ زَمِيلًا وَ اللَّهِ لَا أُكَلِّمُكَ مِنْ رَأْسِي كَلِمَةً أَبَداً He (the narrator) said, ‘The face of Ibn Abu Layla paled. Then he -asws said: ‘Seek a companion for yourself.
By Allah -azwj , I -asws will not speak to you from my -asws head a single word, ever!’ [5] الخصال ابْنُ الْمُتَوَكِّلِ عَنِ السَّعْدَآبَادِيِّ عَنِ الْبَرْقِيِّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ رَفَعَهُ إِلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ: الْقُضَاةُ أَرْبَعَةٌ قَاضٍ قَضَى بِالْحَقِّ وَ هُوَ لَا يَعْلَمُ أَنَّهُ حَقٌّ فَهُوَ فِي النَّارِ وَ قَاضٍ قَضَى بِالْبَاطِلِ وَ هُوَ لَا يَعْلَمُ أَنَّهُ بَاطِلٌ فَهُوَ فِي النَّارِ وَ قَاضٍ قَضَى بِالْبَاطِلِ وَ هُوَ يَعْلَمُ أَنَّهُ بَاطِلٌ فَهُوَ فِي النَّارِ وَ قَاضٍ قَضَى بِالْحَقِ وَ هُوَ يَعْلَمُ أَنَّهُ حَقٌّ فَهُوَ فِي الْجَنَّةِ (The book) ‘Al Khisaal’ – Ibn Al Mutawakkil, from Al Sa’dabady, from Al Barqy, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr raising it to, Abu Abdullah -asws said: ‘ The judgments are four – a judge judges with the truth and he does not know that it is the truth, so, he would be in the Hellfire ; and a judge judging with the falsehood and he does not know that it is false, so he would be in the Hellfire; and a judge judging with the falsehood and he knows that is it false, he would be in the Hellfire; and a judge judging with the truth and he knows that it is true, he would be in the Paradise’.
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