الْمُسْتَعَانُ وَ إِنَّمَا مجمع [يَجْمَعُ النَّاسَ الرِّضَا وَ الْغَضَبُ أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ إِنَّمَا عَقَرَ نَاقَةَ صَالِحٍ وَاحِدٌ فَأَصَابَهُمْ بِعَذَابِهِ بِالرِّضَا وَ آيَةُ ذَلِكَ قَوْلُهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ فَنادَوْا صاحِبَهُمْ فَتَعاطى فَعَقَرَ فَكَيْفَ كانَ عَذابِي وَ نُذُرِ وَ قَالَ فَعَقَرُوها فَدَمْدَمَ عَلَيْهِمْ رَبُّهُمْ بِذَنْبِهِمْ فَسَوَّاها وَ لا يَخافُ عُقْباها أَلَا وَ مَنْ سُئِلَ عَنْ قَاتِلِي فَزَعَمَ أَنَّهُ مُؤْمِنٌ فَقَدْ قَتَلَنِي أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ مَنْ سَلَكَ الطَّرِيقَ وَرَدَ الْمَاءَ وَ مَنْ حَادَ عَنْهُ وَقَعَ فِي التِّيهِ ثُمَّ نَزَلَ.

is the Helper. The axis of people is love and hatred. O people, one man hamstrung the she-camel of Salih, and all of them were afflicted with that punishment because of their being pleased with that act, by the proof of the verse: "So they called their companion, and he took [the sword] and hamstrung [her]. How then were My punishment and My warnings?" And He said: "So they hamstrung her, and their Lord brought down destruction upon them for their sin and levelled them with the ground, and He did not fear its consequence." Know that if anyone is asked about my killer and he supposes that he was a believer, that very person has indeed killed me. O people, whoever travels on the straight road reaches the water, and whoever deviates from it becomes bewildered. Then he came down from the pulpit.

وَ رَوَاهُ لَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ هَمَّامٍ وَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ جُمْهُورٍ مَعاً عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ جُمْهُورٍ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ نُوحٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عُلَيْمٍ عَنْ رَجُلٍ عَنْ فُرَاتِ بْنِ أَحْنَفَ عَنْ أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عليه السلام مِثْلَهُ إِلَّا أَنَّهُ قَالَ لَا تَسْتَوْحِشُوا فِي طَرِيقِ الْهُدَى لِقِلَّةِ أَهْلِهِ

And the like of this hadith has also been related by the way of Furat b. al-Ahnaf from the Commander of the Faithful, peace be upon him, only that there he said: Do not be dismayed, in travelling the road of guidance, at the fewness of its people.

«28»- سن، المحاسن ابْنُ فَضَّالٍ عَنْ أَبِي جَمِيلَةَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ الْحَلَبِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عليه السلام قَالَ: مَنْ خَلَعَ جَمَاعَةَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ قَدْرَ شِبْرٍ خَلَعَ رِبْقَ الْإِسْلَامِ مِنْ عُنُقِهِ وَ مَنْ نَكَثَ صَفْقَةَ الْإِمَامِ جَاءَ إِلَى اللَّهِ أَجْذَمَ.

Al-Mahasin: Al-Halabi related from Imam al-Sadiq, peace be upon him, that he said: Whoever keeps away from the community of the Muslims by the measure of a hand-span, the halter of faith is removed from his neck; and whoever breaks the pledge of allegiance to an Imam will come before God on the Day of Resurrection with his hands cut off.

بيان: الخلع هنا مجاز كأنه شبه جماعة المسلمين عند كونه بينهم بثوب شمله و المراد المفارقة و يحتمل أن يكون أصله فارق فصحف كما في الكافي و ورد كذلك في أخبار العامة أيضا قال الجزري فيه من فارق الجماعة قدر شبر فقد خلع ربقة الإسلام من عنقه مفارقة الجماعة ترك السنة و اتباع البدعة و الربقة في الأصل عروة في حبل تجعل في عنق البهيمة أو يدها تمسكها فاستعارها للإسلام يعني ما يشد المسلم به نفسه من عرى الإسلام أي حدوده و أحكامه و أوامره و نواهيه و يجمع الربقة على ربق مثل كسرة و كسر و يقال للحبل الذي فيه الربقة ربق و تجمع على رباق و أرباق و قال فيه من تعلم القرآن ثم نسيه لقی اللّٰه يوم القيامة و هو أجذم أي مقطوع اليد من الجذم القطع

"Khal'" in the hadith is used figuratively, as though the community of the Muslims had been likened to a garment that covers, and what is meant by it is parting and separation. It is possible that the original word in the hadith is "faraqa", as it is in the copy of al-Kafi, and that it was afterwards altered. In the hadiths of the Sunnis the word "faraqa" is used, as al-Jazari has recorded in al-Nihaya: "parting from the community" is abandoning the practice and following innovation. "Ribqa" is originally a firm rope that is tied around the necks or the legs of beasts, and it has been used of Islam figuratively, that is, the thing by which the Muslims hold themselves bound to the bounds and rulings of the law and its commands and prohibitions. And "ribqa" has the plural "ribq" in the speech of the Arabs, like "kisra" and "kisar"; and a rope that has a "ribqa" is called "ribq", whose plurals are "ribaq" and "arbaq". In the same lexicon he said: On this subject a hadith has come: Whoever learns the Qur'an and then forgets it will meet God on the Day of Resurrection while he is "ajdham", that is, with his hands cut off. "Ajdham" is from the root "jadhm", meaning cutting.

وَ مِنْهُ حَدِيثُ عَلِيٍّ عليه السلام مَنْ نَكَثَ بَيْعَتَهُ لَقِیَ اللَّهَ وَ هُوَ أَجْذَمُ لَيْسَتْ لَهُ يَدٌ.

And of this is the hadith of 'Ali, peace be upon him, where he said: Whoever breaks his pledge of allegiance to the Imam will meet God while he is "ajdham", that is, he has no hand. Ibn Qutayba says: "Ajdham" here means one all of whose limbs have perished, and the hand is no more deserving of punishment than the rest of the limbs. The Arabs say: "rajul ajdham" and "majdhum", used when a man's whole body has perished through the disease of leprosy, which is a well-known illness.

قال القتيبي الأجذم هاهنا الذي ذهبت أعضاؤه كلها و ليست اليد أولى بالعقوبة من باقي الأعضاء يقال رجل أجذم و مجذوم إذا تهافتت أطرافه من الجذام و هو الداء المعروف و قال الجوهري لا يقال للمجذوم أجذم و قال ابن الأنباري ردا على ابن قتيبة لو كان العقاب لا يقع إلا بالجارحة التي باشرت المعصية

Ibn al-Anbari, in refuting Ibn Qutayba, says: If punishment fell only upon the limbs with which one disobeys,