Chapter on al-Bida’
Al-Kāfi|Volume 1|Book 3|Chapter 24
9ـ عَنْهُ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ فَضَّالٍ عَنْ دَاوُدَ بْنِ فَرْقَدٍ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ عُثْمَانَ الْجُهَنِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) قَالَ إِنَّ الله لَمْ يَبْدُ لَهُ مِنْ جَهْلٍ.
9. It is narrated from him (Muhammad Ibn Yahya al-Attar) from Ahmad (Ibn Muhammad), from al-Hassan ibn Ali ibn Faddal, from Dawud ibn Farqad, from ‘Amr ibn ‘Uthman al-Juhanni that Abu Abdillah al-Sadiq عليه السلام said: "Al-Bada' does not take place to Allah سبحانه وتعالى from ignorance."
- Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (2/140)
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 1, p. 18