Al-Kāfi
Hadith 463 1ـ الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ مُعَلَّى بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ الْوَشَّاءِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْفُضَيْلِ عَنْ أَبِي حَمْزَةَ قَالَ قَالَ لِي أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) إِنَّمَا يَعْبُدُ الله مَنْ يَعْرِفُ الله فَأَمَّا مَنْ لا يَعْرِفُ الله فَإِنَّمَا يَعْبُدُهُ هَكَذَا ضَلالاً قُلْتُ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ فَمَا مَعْرِفَةُ الله قَالَ تَصْدِيقُ الله عَزَّ وَجَلَّ وَتَصْدِيقُ رَسُولِهِ (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِه) وَمُوَالاةُ علي (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) وَالائْتِمَامُ بِهِ وَبِأَئِمَّةِ الْهُدَى (عَلَيْهم السَّلام) وَالْبَرَاءَةُ إِلَى الله عَزَّ وَجَلَّ مِنْ عَدُوِّهِمْ هَكَذَا يُعْرَفُ الله عَزَّ وَجَلَّ.
1. Al-Husayn ibn Muhammad from Mu‘alla ibn Muhammad from al-Hassan ibn Ali al-Washsha’ who has said that Muhammad ibn al-Fudayl narrated to me from abu Hamza from abu Ja’far (a.s.) who has said the following. “Only those who know Allah worship Him. Those who do not know Allah they worship Him just like that in misguidance.” I then asked, may Allah take my soul in service for your cause, what the knowledge about Allah?” The Imam (a.s.) said, “Knowledge about Allah means is to acknowledge the existence of Allah, the Most Holy, the Most High, to acknowledge His messenger and to love Imam Ali (a.s.). Of such knowledge is to follow him and the Imams of guidance and to denounce before Allah, the Most Holy, the Most High, their (Imams’) enemies. This is how the knowledge about Allah is.”