Al-Kāfi - Volume 8


Book 1, Chapter 248

About the words Allah ‘...do not ask about certain matters..’ (5:101)
1 Ḥadīth

عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَبِي نَصْرٍ عَنْ رَجُلٍ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ (عليه السلام) لا تَسْئَلُوا عَنْ أَشْياءَ لَمْ تُبْدَ لَكُمْ إِنْ تُبْدَ لَكُمْ تَسُؤْكُمْ.


248. A number of our companions, from Sahl Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Abu Nasr, from a man, who has narrated: Abu Ja’far (a.s) (has explained this verse) about “[5:101] O you who believe! do not put questions about things which if declared to you may trouble you”