فَقَالَ لَهُ رَجُلٌ...
فَقَالَ لَهُ رَجُلٌ: إِنِّي سَمِعْتُ مِنْ سَلْمَانَ وَ أَبِي ذَرٍّ الْغِفَارِيِّ وَ الْمِقْدَادِ، أَشْيَاءَ مِنْ تَفْسِيرِ الْقُرْآنِ وَ الرِّوَايَةِ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَ آلِهِ، وَ سَمِعْتُ مِنْكَ تَصْدِيقَ مَا سَمِعْتُ مِنْهُمْ، وَ رَأَيْتُ فِي أَيْدِي النَّاسِ أَشْيَاءَ كَثِيرَةً مِنْ تَفْسِيرِ الْقُرْآنِ وَ الْأَحَادِيثِ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَ آلِهِ، [وَ] أَنْتُمْ تُخَالِفُونَهُمْ وَ تَزْعُمُونَ أَنَّ ذَلِكَ بَاطِلٌ، أَ فَتَرَى النَّاسَ يَكْذِبُونَ مُتَعَمِّدِينَ عَلَى نَبِيِّ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَ آلِهِ وَ يُفَسِّرُونَ الْقُرْآنَ بِآرَائِهِمْ؟ A man said to him -asws , ‘I have heard from Salman -ra , and Abu Zarr Al-Ghifari -ra , and Al-Miqdad ‑ra , (certain) things from the interpretation of the Quran and reports from the Prophet -saww , and I -asws heard from you -asws the verification of what I had heard from them, and I have seen many things in the hands of the people, from the interpretation of the Quran and Ahadeeth from the Prophet -saww , and you -asws are opposing them and claiming that, that is false.
Do you view the people are lying deliberately upon the Prophet -saww of Allah -azwj and are interpreting the Quran by their own opinions?’ قَالَ: فَأَقْبَلَ [إِلَيْهِ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ] عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ فَقَالَ لَهُ: قَدْ سَأَلْتَ فَافْهَمِ الْجَوَابَ: إِنَّ فِي أَيْدِي النَّاسِ حَقّاً وَ بَاطِلًا، وَ صِدْقاً وَ كَذِباً، وَ نَاسِخاً وَ مَنْسُوخاً، وَ عَامّاً وَ خَاصّاً، وَ مُحْكَماً وَ مُتَشَابِهاً، وَ حِفْظاً وَ وَهَماً He (Al-Sadiq -asws ) said: ‘Amir Al-Momineen -asws faced towards him and said to him: ‘You have asked, so understand the answer.
In the hands of the people there is truth and falsehood, and truthfulness and lies, and abrogating and abrogated, and general and special, and decisive and allegorical, memorised and imagined.
وَ قَدْ كُذِبَ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَ آلِهِ وَ هُوَ حَيٌّ، حَتَّى قَامَ خَطِيباً فَقَالَ: «أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ قَدْ كَثُرَتْ عَلَيَّ الْكَذَّابَةُ، فَمَنْ كَذَبَ عَلَيَّ مُتَعَمِّداً فَلْيَتَبَوَّأْ مَقْعَدَهُ مِنَ النَّارِ And Rasool-Allah -saww had been lied upon while he -saww was alive, until he -asws stood up to address and said: ‘O you people!
The lies have been frequented upon me -asws , so the one who lies upon me -asws deliberately, let him assume his seat from the Fire’.
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