Al-Kāfi

Hadith 77
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4ـ وَعَنْهُ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنْ أَبِي أَيُّوبَ الْخَزَّازِ عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ خَالِدٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) قَالَ مَا مِنْ أَحَدٍ يَمُوتُ مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ أَحَبَّ إِلَى إِبْلِيسَ مِنْ مَوْتِ فَقِيهٍ.
4. From him (Muhammad ibn Yahya) from Ahmad from ibn Mahbub from abu Ayyub al-Khazzaz from Sulayman ibn Khalid that Abu ‘Abdillah (as) said, "Of the deaths of the believers that Satan loves most, is the death of a Faqih (a knowledgable person of islamic laws)."
Source: Shaykh Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb al-Kulaynī

Similar narrations

  • Al-Kāfi #74 Of the deaths from among the believers that Satan loves most, is the death of a Faqih (a person knowledgable of islamic laws)."
  • Al-Kāfi #75 “When a believer who is a Faqih dies, it causes irreparable damage in the Islamic system."
  • Muʿjam al-Aḥādīth al-Muʿtabara #13 no one dies from among the believers whose death is more pleasing to Iblis than the death of a Faqih.
  • Man Lā Yaḥḍuruh al-Faqīh #560 Hadith.559 - Imam Jafar ibn Muhammad Al-Sadiq (as) said: "There is no one whose death is more beloved to Iblis than the death of a scholar...
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