Abu Ali Al Ashary...

Abu Ali Al Ashary, from Muhammad Bin Abdul Jabbar, from Ibn Abu Najran, from Umar Bin Yazeed, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah -asws having said: ‘ Do not befriend the people of the innovation, nor sit with them (in a gathering) , for you would become, in the presence of the people, like one of them’. Rasool-Allah -saww said: ‘ The man is upon the Religion of his friend and his associates ’.

[22] وَ عَنْهُمْ عَنْ سَهْلٍ عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنْ خَطَّابِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ الْحَارِثِ بْنِ الْمُغِيرَةِ أَنَّ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ لَهُ لَأَحْمِلَنَّ ذُنُوبَ سُفَهَائِكُمْ عَلَى عُلَمَائِكُمْ إِلَى أَنْ قَالَ مَا يَمْنَعُكُمْ إِذَا بَلَغَكُمْ عَنِ الرَّجُلِ مِنْكُمْ مَا تَكْرَهُونَ وَ مَا يَدْخُلُ عَلَيْنَا بِهِ الْأَذَى أَنْ تَأْتُوهُ فَتُؤَنِّبُوهُ وَ تُعَذِّلُوهُ وَ تَقُولُوا لَهُ قَوْلًا بَلِيغاً قُلْتُ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ إِذاً لَا يَقْبَلُونَ مِنَّا قَالَ اهْجُرُوهُمْ وَ اجْتَنِبُوا مَجَالِسَهُمْ Several people have narrated to Suhail, who from ibn Mehboob, who form Khatab ibn Mohammed, who from al-Harith ibn al-Mughara who has said the following: Aba Abdullah -asws said: The sins of our shias are on the necks of the scholars.

Why do you sit in the company of those who abhors you and me -asws but you still speak with him? And a passer-by says about you that he is worse than the others. You should rebuke this kind of people. I said: ‘Even if I try to stop them (the scholars) they still continue with their mischief. Imam said -asws : Then you should avoid them and stop sitting in their gatherings.

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