The Severity of the Trial of a Believer
Al-Kāfi|Volume 2|Book 1|Chapter 106
27ـ أَبُو عَلِيٍّ الأشْعَرِيُّ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْجَبَّارِ عَنِ ابْنِ فَضَّالٍ عَنِ ابْنِ بُكَيْرٍ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) أَ يُبْتَلَى الْمُؤْمِنُ بِالْجُذَامِ وَالْبَرَصِ وَأَشْبَاهِ هَذَا قَالَ فَقَالَ وَهَلْ كُتِبَ الْبَلاءُ إِلا عَلَى الْمُؤْمِنِ.
27. Abu Ali al-Ash’ari has narrated from Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Jabbar from ibn Faddal from ibn Bukayr who has said the following: “Once I asked Abu ‘Abdillah عليه السلام ‘Does a believer suffer from leprosy or similar diseases?’ The Imam asked, ‘Is misfortune written for anyone other than the believers?”’
- Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (9/351)
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 1, p. 103