Cruel, Transgressor
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا إِنْ جَاءَكُمْ فَاسِقٌ بِنَبَإٍ فَتَبَيَّنُوا أَنْ تُصِيبُوا قَوْمًا بِجَهَالَةٍ فَتُصْبِحُوا عَلَىٰ مَا فَعَلْتُمْ نَادِمِينَ {6}
O you who believe! If a ‘فَاسِقٌ’ transgressor comes to you with news, then investigate, lest you harm a people in ignorance, and you would become remorseful upon what you have done [49:6]
ابن بابويه، قال: حدثنا أبي (رحمه الله)، قال: حدثنا سعد بن عبد الله، عن أحمد بن محمد بن عيسى، عن الحسن بن علي بن فضال، عن أبي جميلة المفضل بن صالح، عن زيد الشحام، قال: سألت أبا عبد الله (عليه السلام) عن الفسوق، فقال: الفسوق هو الكذب، ألا تسمع قول الله عز و جل: يا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا إِنْ جاءَكُمْ فاسِقٌ بِنَبَإٍ فَتَبَيَّنُوا أَنْ تُصِيبُوا قَوْماً بِجَهالَةٍ
Ibn babuwayh said, ‘My father narrated to us, from Sa’d Bin Abdullah, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from Al-Hassan Bin Ali Bin Fazaal, from Abu Jameela Al-Mufazzal Bin Salih, from Zayd Al-Shahaam who said,
‘I asked Abu Abdullah-asws about the transgression (الفسوق), so he-asws said: ‘The transgression is the lying. Have you not heard the Words of Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic: O you those who believe! If a transgressor comes to you with news, then investigate, lest you harm a people in ignorance, and you would become remorseful upon what you have done [49:6]’.[1]
الطبرسي في (الاحتجاج) في حديث ذكر فيه ما جرى بين الحسن بن علي (عليهما السلام) و بين جماعة من أصحاب معاوية بمحضره، فقال الحسن (عليه السلام): «و أما أنت يا وليد بن عقبة، فو الله ما ألومك أن تبغض عليا، و قد جلدك في الخمر ثمانين، و قتل أباك صبرا بيده يوم بدر، أم كيف تسبه و قد سماه الله مؤمنا في عشر آيات من القرآن و سماك فاسقا
Al-Tabarsy, in Al-Ihtijaj,
In a Hadeeth regarding what transpired between Al-Hassan-asws Bin Ali-asws and a group of the companions of Muawiya in his presence. So, Al-Hassan-asws said: ‘And as for you, O Waleed Bin Uqba, what I-asws accuse you for is that you hate Ali-asws, and that he-asws whipped you eighty lashes for consuming wine, and your father was killed at his-asws hand on the Day of Badr. And how insulting can it be that Allah-azwj has Named you as a transgressor (فاسقا) and has Named him-asws as a Momin in ten Verses from the Quran?
و هو قول الله عز و جل: أَ فَمَنْ كانَ مُؤْمِناً كَمَنْ كانَ فاسِقاً لا يَسْتَوُونَ، و قوله عز و جل: إِنْ جاءَكُمْ فاسِقٌ بِنَبَإٍ فَتَبَيَّنُوا أَنْ تُصِيبُوا قَوْماً بِجَهالَةٍ فَتُصْبِحُوا عَلى ما فَعَلْتُمْ نادِمِينَ، و ما أنت و ذكر قريش، و إنما أنت ابن علج، من أهل صفورية، يقال له ذكوان
And these are the Words of Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic: Is the one who was a Momin like the one who was a transgressor? [32:18]. And the Words of the Mighty and Majestic: O you those who believe! If a transgressor comes to you with news, then investigate, lest you harm a people in ignorance, and you would become remorseful upon what you have done [49:6], and what are you and the mention of the Quraysh. But rather, you are the son of Alaj from the people of Safuriyya, called Zakwaan’.[2]
[1] معاني الأخبار: 294/ 1.
[2] الاحتجاج: 276