The Rewards & Punishments of Deeds · Hadith 1060 (#Ḥadīth #2)

حَدَّثَنِی مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِی مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ الصَّفَّارُ عَنْ یَعْقُوبَ بْنِ یَزِیدَ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِی عُمَیْرٍ عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ سَالِمٍ رَفَعَهُ قَالَ قَالَ عَلِیٌّ ع لَوْ لَا أَنَّ الْمَکْرَ وَ الْخَدِیعَهَ فِی النَّارِ لَکُنْتُ أَمْکَرَ الْعَرَبِ.

2. Imam Amirul Momineen said, “If cheaters would not have been hellish, I would have been the greatest fraudster of the Arabs.”

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