Al-Kāfi

Hadith 2315
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2ـ وَعَنْهُ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ جَمِيلِ بْنِ دَرَّاجٍ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) قَالَ حَدُّ الْجِوَارِ أَرْبَعُونَ دَاراً مِنْ كُلِّ جَانِبٍ مِنْ بَيْنِ يَدَيْهِ وَمِنْ خَلْفِهِ وَعَنْ يَمِينِهِ وَعَنْ شِمَالِهِ.
2. It is narrated from him (narrator of the Hadith above) from his father from Ibn Abi ‘Umayr from Jamil ibn Darraj from abu Ja’far (a.s.) who has said the following: “The limits of a neighborhood are forty houses on all sides, front, back, right and left.”
Source: Shaykh Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb al-Kulaynī

Similar narrations

  • Al-Kāfi #1059 this way, this way, this way and this way, meaning thereby front, back, right and left.”
  • Al-Kāfi #2314 “The Messenger of Allah has said, ‘Every forty houses from the front, back, right and left are neighbors. ’”
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