The Peak of Eloquence · Hadith 1963 (#Passage #322)

٢٦٥. وَقَالَ (عليه السلام): إِنَّ كَلاَمَ الْحُكَمَاءِ إذَا كَانَ صَوَاباً كَانَ دَوَاءً، وَإِذَا كَانَ خَطَأً كَانَ دَاءً.

265. Amīr al-mu’minīn, peace be upon him, said: When the utterance of the wise is to the point it serves as a cure, but if it is wrong it proves like an illness. [1]

Gradings are classical jarḥ-wa-taʿdīl, name-matched to a rijāl index (not individually re-verified).