a messenger from al-Madinah came....
Al-Kāfi|Volume 8|Book 1|Chapter 463
مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ سِنَانٍ عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ جَابِرٍ قَالَ كُنْتُ عِنْدَ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ (عليه السلام) بِمَكَّةَ إِذْ جَاءَهُ رَسُولٌ مِنَ الْمَدِينَةِ فَقَالَ لَهُ مَنْ صَحِبْتَ قَالَ مَا صَحِبْتُ أَحَداً فَقَالَ لَهُ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ (عليه السلام) أَمَا لَوْ كُنْتُ تَقَدَّمْتُ إِلَيْكَ لَأَحْسَنْتُ أَدَبَكَ ثُمَّ قَالَ وَاحِدٌ شَيْطَانٌ وَ اثْنَانِ شَيْطَانَانِ وَ ثَلَاثٌ صَحْبٌ وَ أَرْبَعَةٌ رُفَقَاءُ.
463. Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ibn Sinan, from Ismail Bin Jabir who said: I was in the presence of Abu Abdullah عليه الصلاة والسلام at Makkah when a messenger from Al-Medina came to him عليه الصلاة والسلام. So he عليه الصلاة والسلام said to him: ‘Who did you come with?’ He said, ‘I had no one to accompany me’. Abu Abdullah عليه الصلاة والسلام said to him: ‘But, if I عليه الصلاة والسلام had come to see you, I عليه الصلاة والسلام would have educated you of well manners’. Then said: ‘One is a Satan (la), and two are Satans (la), and three are a company, and four are friends’.
- Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (16/384)
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