Chapter on the Loss of a Scholar
Al-Kāfi|Volume 1|Book 2|Chapter 7
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 عليه السلام said, "Of the deaths of the believers that Satan loves most, is the death of a Faqih (a knowledgable person of islamic laws)."
- Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (1/126)
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 1, pp. 4, 5