Pride and Arrogance
Al-Kāfi|Volume 2|Book 1|Chapter 134
4ـ عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ عَنْ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ عِيسَى بْنِ الضَّحَّاكِ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) عَجَباً لِلْمُخْتَالِ الْفَخُورِ وَإِنَّمَا خُلِقَ مِنْ نُطْفَةٍ ثُمَّ يَعُودُ جِيفَةً وَهُوَ فِيمَا بَيْنَ ذَلِكَ لا يَدْرِي مَا يُصْنَعُ بِهِ.
4. A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Khalid from ‘Uthman ibn ‘Isa from ‘Isa ibn al-Dahhak who has said the following: “Abu Ja’far عليه السلام has said, ‘It is astonishing how one acts boastfully and arrogantly, when it is a fact that he is created from sperm and he will soon turn into a carcass and, in between, he does not know what may happen to him.’”
- Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (0/288)
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 1, p. 113