Al-Kāfi - Volume 8


Book 1, Chapter 519

Enemies for our sake
1 Ḥadīth

أَحْمَدُ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَكَمِ عَنْ قُتَيْبَةَ الْأَعْشَى قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ (عليه السلام) يَقُولُ عَادَيْتُمْ فِينَا الْآبَاءَ وَ الْأَبْنَاءَ وَ الْأَزْوَاجَ وَ ثَوَابُكُمْ عَلَى اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ أَمَا إِنَّ أَحْوَجَ مَا تَكُونُونَ إِذَا بَلَغَتِ الْأَنْفُسُ إِلَى هَذِهِ وَ أَوْمَأَ بِيَدِهِ إِلَى حَلْقِهِ.


519. Ahmad, from Ali Bin Al-Hakam, from Quteyba Al-A’ashy who said: I heard Abu Abdullah (a.s) saying: ‘You have antagonised your fathers, and your sons, and your wives with regards to us (a.s), and your Reward is upon Allah (azwj) Mighty and Majestic. But rather, it would be most needed when you are in a state when your souls reach to here’ – and he (a.s) gestured by his (a.s) hand to his (a.s) throat’.