Al-Kāfi - Volume 8


Book 1, Chapter 284

Government of falsehood lives longer
1 Ḥadīth

Ḥadīth #1

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وَ عَنْهُ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ سِنَانٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ (عليه السلام) قَالَ لَمْ تَزَلْ دَوْلَةُ الْبَاطِلِ طَوِيلَةً وَ دَوْلَةُ الْحَقِّ قَصِيرَةً.

284. And from him, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ibn Mahboub, from Abdullah Bin Sinan, who has said: Abu Abdullah (a.s) has said; ‘The government of falsehood does not decline for a long time, and the government of the truth lasts for a short while’.