Al-Kāfi - Volume 8


Book 1, Chapter 247

About the words of Allah ‘two just people among you’ (5:95)
1 Ḥadīth

Ḥadīth #1

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عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ حَمَّادِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ قَالَ تَلَوْتُ عِنْدَ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ (عليه السلام) ذَوا عَدْلٍ مِنْكُمْ فَقَالَ ذُو عَدْلٍ مِنْكُمْ هَذَا مِمَّا أَخْطَأَتْ فِيهِ الْكُتَّابُ.

247. Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abi ‘Umayr, from Hammaad Bin Usmaan who said: I recited: “[5:95] as two just persons among you shall judge” in the presence of Abu Abdullah (a.s), so he (a.s) said: ‘Two just ones among you – this is from what the scribes have erred with regards to it’