Al-Kāfi

Hadith 754
oaths-vowslying
1- عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ فَضَّالٍ عَنْ ثَعْلَبَةَ بْنِ مَيْمُونٍ عَنْ يَعْقُوبَ الأحْمَرِ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) مَنْ حَلَفَ عَلَى يَمِينٍ وَهُوَ يَعْلَمُ أَنَّهُ كَاذِبٌ فَقَدْ بَارَزَ اللهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ.
1. A number of our people have narrated from and from ibn Faddal from Tha‘labah ibn Maymun from Ya‘qub al-Ahmar who has narrated the following: “Abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), has said, ‘If one takes an oath which he knows is false he has opposed Allah, most Majestic, most 0100005 .’”
Source: Shaykh Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb al-Kulaynī

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