Al-Kāfi - Volume 8


Book 1, Chapter 497

People of the noble manners...
1 Ḥadīth

عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ حَمَّادِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ رِبْعِيٍّ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ (عليه السلام) قَالَ وَ اللَّهِ لَا يُحِبُّنَا مِنَ الْعَرَبِ وَ الْعَجَمِ إِلَّا أَهْلُ الْبُيُوتَاتِ وَ الشَّرَفِ وَ الْمَعْدِنِ وَ لَا يُبْغِضُنَا مِنْ هَؤُلَاءِ وَ هَؤُلَاءِ إِلَّا كُلُّ دَنَسٍ مُلْصَقٍ.


497. Ali Bin Ibrahiim, from his father, from Hammaad Bin Isa, from Rabi’e, who has narrated the following: Abu Abdullah (a.s) has said; ‘By Allah (azwj)! No one from the Arabs or the non-Arabs loves us (a.s) except the people of noble houses, and the (noble) origins; and no one from these ones and those ones hates us (a.s) except for all the filthy ones and of illegitimate origin’.