26 - أبي رحمه الله، قال: حدثنا سعد بن عبد الله، قال: حدثنا محمد بن عيسى قال: قرأت في كتاب علي بن بلال أنه سأل الرجل يعني أبا الحسن عليه السلام: أنه روي عن آبائك عليهم السلام أنهم نهوا عن الكلام في الدين. فتأول مواليك المتكلمون بأنه إنما نهى من لا يحسن أن يتكلم فيه فأما من يحسن أن يتكلم فيه فلم ينه، فهل ذلك كما تأولوا أولا؟ فكتب عليه السلام: المحسن وغير المحسن لا يتكلم فيه فإن إثمه أكثر من نفعه.
26. My father said: Sa1d ibn `Abd Allah said: Muhammad ibn `Isa said I read in the letter of `Ali ibn Bilal that he asked the man, i.e. Abu al-Hasan al-Kadhim
, regarding the prohibition of discussing matters of religion which were transmitted from his ancestors. Your followers [mawali] have interpreted `the speakers’ to mean that those who are not well-versed about a topic are prohibited from speaking about it and that whoever is well-versed about a topic is not prohibited from speaking about it. Is this the way you interpret it or not? Thus, he
wrote: “...neither the well-versed nor the ignorant should speak about it, for indeed, its sin is greater than its benefit.”
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