Al-Kāfi - Volume 8


Book 1, Chapter 306

Allah sent Muhammad, ‘Alayhi al-Salam, as a Mercy
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عَنْهُ عَنْ صَالِحٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مِهْرَانَ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ بَشِيرٍ عَنْ عُثَيْمِ بْنِ سُلَيْمَانَ عَنْ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنِ عَمَّارٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ (عليه السلام) قَالَ إِذَا تَمَنَّى أَحَدُكُمُ الْقَائِمَ فَلْيَتَمَنَّهُ فِي عَافِيَةٍ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ بَعَثَ مُحَمَّداً (صلى الله عليه وآله) رَحْمَةً وَ يَبْعَثُ الْقَائِمَ نَقِمَةً.


306. From him, from Ṣāliḥ, from Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mih'rān, from ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Bashīr, from ʿUthaym ibn Sulaymān, from Muʿāwiyah ibn ʿAmmār, from Abī ʿAbdillāh (a.s), who said: "If one of you wishes for the Qā'im, let him wish for him in protection (for everyone), for indeed Allah sent Muḥammad ﷺ as a mercy, and He will send the Qā'im as a wrath."