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1584 - الكُذَيبَةُ

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5456.رسولُ اللَّهِ صلى اللَّه عليه وآله : حَسبُكَ مِن الكذبِ أن تُحَدِّثَ بكُلِّ ما سَمِعتَ .1

5456.The Prophet (SAWA) said, 'It suffices as lying for you to repeat everything that you hear.' 2

5457.رسولُ اللَّهِ صلى اللَّه عليه وآله - لمّا سَألتَهُ أسماءُ بنتُ يَزيدَ - : إن قالَت إحدانا لِشي‏ءٍ تَشتَهيهِ : لا أشتَهيهِ ، يُعَدُّ ذلكَ كِذباً ؟ قال : إنّ الكِذبَ يُكتَبُ كِذباً حتّى‏ يُكتَبَ الكُذَيبَةُ كُذَيبَةً .3

5457. The Prophet (SAWA), when Asma' bint Yazid asked him, 'If one of us were to say about something we desired: 'I do not desire it', would this be considered lying?' He replied, 'A lie is written as a lie, and a white lie is written as a white lie.' 4

5458.عبدُ اللَّهِ بن عامِرٍ : دَعَتني اُمِّي يَوماً ورسولُ اللَّهِ صلى اللَّه عليه وآله قاعِدٌ في بَيتِنا ، فقالت : ها تَعالَ اُعطِكَ ، فقالَ لها رسولُ اللَّهِ صلى اللَّه عليه وآله : ما أرَدتَ أن تُعطِيَهُ ؟ قالت : أرَدتُ أن اُعطِيَهُ تَمراً ، فقالَ لَها رسولُ اللَّهِ صلى اللَّه عليه وآله : أما إنّكِ لو لم تُعطِهِ شيئاً كُتِبَت علَيكِ كِذبَةٌ .5

5458. Abdullah b. 'Amir narrated, 'My mother called me one day when the Prophet (SAWA) was sitting in our house, and she said, 'Come here so I can give you something.' The Prophet (SAWA) asked her, 'What did you want to give him?' She said, 'I wanted to give him a date.' So the Prophet (SAWA) said to her, 'If you were not to have given him anything, it would have been written against you as a lie.' 6

1.تنبيه الخواطر : ۲ / ۱۲۲ .

2.Tanbih al-Khawatir, v. ۲, p. ۱۲۲

3.الترغيب والترهيب : ۳ / ۵۹۷ / ۳۲ .

4.al-Targhib wa al-Tarhib, v. ۳, p. ۵۹۷, no. ۳۲

5.الترغيب والترهيب : ۳ / ۵۹۸ / ۳۴ .

6.Ibid. v. ۳, p. ۵۹۸, no. ۳۴

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