Chapter 22(a) - Rejecting Evil in one’s Heart

2. With this chain of narration, Abu Abdullah عليه السلام said, ‘Verily, enjoining what is good and forbidding what is evil is incumbent upon a believer so he admonishes, or upon an ingorant so he learns from it; but as for the wielder of a whip or a sword, then no.’

3. It is narrated from (Ali ibn Ibrahim) his father from Ibn Abi ‘Umayr from Mufaddal ibn Yazid who has said the following: “Abu ‘Abd Allah عليه السلام, once said to me, ‘O Mufaddal, if one protests against an unjust ruler and he faces an affliction he will not receive any reward for such suffering nor is he granted any patience to bear in such suffering.’”

4. Ali has narrated from his father from certain persons of his people from Ghiyath ibn Ibrahim who has said the following: “When seeing a quarrelling group of people abu ‘Abd Allah عليه السلام, would not pass by without always saying three times loudly, ‘You must maintain piety in the presence of Allah.’”

5. Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from Muhammad ibn Sinan from Mahfuz al-Iskaf who has said the following: “I saw abu ‘Abd Allah عليه السلام, who had completed throwing pebbles on Jamarah al-‘Aqabah and was moving away. I walked before to clear the path for him. There was a man of yellow complexion from ‘Amrak (or a quarrelsome one) who had fixed a peg in the ground and had tied a rope from it to his tent which had blocked people’s movement. Abu ‘Abd Allah عليه السلام, said to him, ‘O you, be pious before Allah. This (path) does not belong to you.’ He (the narrator) has said that al-‘Amraki said to him, ‘Why can you not mind your own business instead of imposing on me a burden without knowing who passes by (my tent) and say, “O you, be pious before Allah.’” The narrator has said that abu ‘Abd Allah عليه السلام, then lifted the rope of his camel, bowed his head down and passed by. Al-‘Amrakiy, the black person, also left him alone.’”