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alkafi-15149Vol. 8, p. 268

قُلْتُ لِأَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع إِنِّي رَجُلٌ مِنْ بَجِيلَةَ وَ أَنَا أَدِينُ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ بِأَنَّكُمْ مَوَالِيَّ وَ قَدْ يَسْأَلُنِي بَعْضُ مَنْ لَا يَعْرِفُنِي فَيَقُولُ لِي مِمَّنِ الرَّجُلُ فَأَقُولُ لَهُ أَنَا رَجُلٌ مِنَ الْعَرَبِ ثُمَّ مِنْ بَجِيلَةَ فَعَلَيَّ فِي هَذَا إِثْمٌ حَيْثُ لَمْ أَقُلْ إِنِّي مَوْلًى لِبَنِي هَاشِمٍ فَقَالَ لَا أَ لَيْسَ قَلْبُكَ وَ هَوَاكَ مُنْعَقِداً[2] عَلَى أَنَّكَ مِنْ

I said to Abu Abdullah (asws), ‘I am a man from Bajilat (tribe), and I am on the Religion of Allah (azwj) by having befriended you (asws), and some who do not know me have asked me by saying to me, ‘Who are you?’, so I say to them, ‘I am a man from the Arabs’, then (I say), from Bajilat. So is this a sin for me where I

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