Zandaqa (الزَّنْدَقَةِ, زنديق)

Atheist

الغيبة للشيخ الطوسي الْعَطَّارُ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي الْخَطَّابِ عَنْ صَفْوَانَ بْنِ يَحْيَى عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ يَحْيَى بْنِ أَبِي الْبِلَادِ قَالَ قَالَ الرِّضَا ع‏ مَا فَعَلَ الشَّقِيُّ حَمْزَةُ بْنُ بَزِيعٍ قُلْتُ هُوَ ذَا هُوَ قَدْ قَدِمَ فَقَالَ يَزْعُمُ أَنَّ أَبِي حَيٌّ هُمُ الْيَوْمَ شُكَّاكٌ وَ لَا يَمُوتُونَ غَداً إِلَّا عَلَى الزَّنْدَقَةِ

(The book) ‘Al Ghayba’ of the Sheykh Al Tusi – Al Attar, from his father, from Ibn Abu Al Khattab, from Safwan Bin Yahya, from Ibrahim Bin Yahya Bin Abu Al Bilad who said,

‘Al-Reza-asws said: ‘What happened to the wretch Hamza Bin Bazie?’ I said, ‘There he is! He is arriving’. He-asws said: ‘He alleges that my-asws father-asws is still alive. Today, they are the doubters, and tomorrow they will not be dying except upon the atheism’.

قَالَ صَفْوَانُ فَقُلْتُ فِيمَا بَيْنِي وَ بَيْنَ نَفْسِي شُكَّاكٌ قَدْ عَرَفْتُهُمْ فَكَيْفَ يَمُوتُونَ عَلَى الزَّنْدَقَةِ فَمَا لَبِثْنَا إِلَّا قَلِيلًا حَتَّى بَلَغَنَا عَنْ رَجُلٍ‏ مِنْهُمْ أَنَّهُ قَالَ عِنْدَ مَوْتِهِ هُوَ كَافِرٌ بِرَبٍّ أَمَاتَهُ

‘I said in what is between me and myself, ‘Doubter, I have recognised them, but how will they be dying upon ‘الزَّنْدَقَةِ’ the atheism?’ We did not wait except a little until it reached us about a man from them that he had said during his death that he is a Kafir with the Lord-azwj Who Killed him’.

قَالَ صَفْوَانُ فَقُلْتُ هَذَا تَصْدِيقُ الْحَدِيثِ‏

‘I said, ‘This is verification of the Hadeeth’’.[1]

NB: Questions of Zanadiqa on Quran | Hubeali.com


[1] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 48, The book of History – Musa Al-Kazim-asws, Ch 10 H 10

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