Racism

1. Muhammad b. Yahya from from Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Isa from Ali b. al-Hakam from Dawud b. al-Nu’man from Mansur b. Hazim from Abu Abdillah (as) who said: “Whoever discriminates or supports discrimination, he has taken off the collar of belief from his neck.”

Translation: Muhammad Sarwar — attributed by Thaqalayn·The Arabic above is the original.

123. Yahya Al-Halby, from Basheer Al-Kunasy who said: ‘I heard Abu Abdullah (asws) saying: ‘You have maintained relations whilst the people have cut-off, and you loved whilst the people hated (you), and you recognised whilst the people denied, and it is the ‘الْحَقُّ’ Just. Allah (azwj) Took Muhammad (saww) to be a servant before He (azwj) Took him (saww) as a Prophet, and that Ali (asws) used to be a servant, and advisor for the Sake of Allah (zwj) Mighty and Majestic. So he (asws) was blessed and Allah (azwj) Mighty and Majestic Loved him (asws), and he (asws) loved Him (azwj). Surely, our (asws) Rights in the Book of Allah (azwj) are clear. For us (asws) is the clean wealth, and for us (asws) is the Spoils of war (Al-Anfaal- Khums), and that Allah (azwj) Mighty and Majestic has Obligated the people to be obedient to us (asws), since you follow but the people have no excuse for their ignorance. And the Rasool Allah (saww) said: ‘The one who dies and he has no Imam for him has died the death of a pagan. So it is upon you to obey, and you have seen the companions of Ali (asws). Then he (asws) said: ‘The Rasool Allah (saww) said during his illness in which he (saww) passed away: ‘Call my (saww) friend for me (saww)!’. So two (females) sent for their respective fathers, but when they came, he (saww) turned his (saww) face away, then said: ‘Call my (saww) friend for me (saww)!’ They (two fathers) said, ‘He (saww) would have looked at us had he (saww) intended to speak to us’. So they sent for Ali (asws). So when he (asws) came, he (asws) leaned across towards him (saww), and he (saww) narrated to him (asws), and narrated to him (asws) until he was free from it. So (the two fathers) met him (asws) and said, ‘What did he (saww) narrated to you (asws)?’ He (asws) said: ‘He (saww) narrated to me (asws) by a thousand doors of the knowledge, each door of which opens to a (further) thousand doors’.

Translation: Muhammad Sarwar — attributed by Thaqalayn·The Arabic above is the original.

2. Ali b. Ibrahim from his father from Ibn Abi ‘Umayr from Hisham b. Salim and Drust b. Abu Mansur from Abu Abdillah (as) who said: Rasulullah (s) said, “Whoever discriminates or supports discrimination, he has taken off the collar of belief from his neck.”

Translation: Muhammad Sarwar — attributed by Thaqalayn·The Arabic above is the original.

3. Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father from al-Nawfali from al-Sakuni from Abu ‘Abdillah (a.s.) who has said the following: “The Messenger of Allah (sw) has said, ‘Whoever has prejudice/racism in his heart of the size of a mustard seed, on the Day of Judgment Allah will raise him with the bedouins of the time of Jahiliyah (pre-Islamic ignorance).’”

Translation: Muhammad Sarwar — attributed by Thaqalayn·The Arabic above is the original.

4. Abu Ali al-Ash’ari has narrated from Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Jabbar from Safwan ibn Yahya from Khudr from Muhammad ibn Muslim from Abu ‘Abdillah (a.s.) who has said the following: “On the Day of Judgment Allah will join those who practice racial discrimination with a race in fire.”

Translation: Muhammad Sarwar — attributed by Thaqalayn·The Arabic above is the original.

5. A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Khalid from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn abu Nasr from Safwan ibn Mehran from ‘Amir ibn al-Simt from Habib ibn Abu Thabit from Ali ibn al-Husayn (a.s.) who said: “No zeal has entered Paradise except the zeal of Hamza ibn Abdul-Muttalib, and that was when he accepted Islam out of anger for the Prophet (sw) during the incident of the entrails that were thrown upon the Prophet (sw).”

Translation: Muhammad Sarwar — attributed by Thaqalayn·The Arabic above is the original.

6. It is narrated from him (narrator of the Hadith above) from his father from Fadalah from Dawud ibn Farqad from Abu ‘Abdillah (a.s.) who has said the following: “The angels thought that Satan was one of them. In the knowledge of Allah he was not one of them. He (Satan) let out that which was in his soul with racist feelings and anger saying, ‘You have created me from fire and You created him from clay.’”

Translation: Muhammad Sarwar — attributed by Thaqalayn·The Arabic above is the original.

7. Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father and Ali ibn Muhammad al-Qasani from al-Qasim ibn Muhammad from al-Minqari from ‘Abd al-Razzaq from Mu’ammar from al-Zuhri who has said the following: “Once, Ali ibn al-Husayn (a.s.) was asked about racist feelings. He said, ‘The racist feeling that is a sin is the one that makes a person call the evil doers of his own people better than the virtuous individuals of the other people. A man’s loving his own people is not racism but it is a sin to help one’s own people to commit injustice.”

Translation: Muhammad Sarwar — attributed by Thaqalayn·The Arabic above is the original.