Al-Kāfi - Volume 8


Book 1, Chapter 183

In praise of Shi’ah and in reproach of their opposition
1 Ḥadīth

عَنْهُ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ الْمُبَارَكِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ جَبَلَةَ عَنْ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ عَمَّارٍ أَوْ غَيْرِهِ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ (عليه السلام) نَحْنُ بَنُو هَاشِمٍ وَ شِيعَتُنَا الْعَرَبُ وَ سَائِرُ النَّاسِ الْأَعْرَابُ.


183. From him, from Yahya Bin Al-Mubarak, from Abdullah Bin Jabalat, from Is’haq Bin Ammaar or someone else who said: Abu Abdullah (a.s) said: ‘We (a.s) are the Clan of Hashim (a.s), and our (a.s) Shiites are the Arabs, and the rest of the people are Bedouins’.