The Rewards & Punishments of Deeds · Hadith 1061 (#Ḥadīth #3)

حَدَّثَنِی أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِی سَعْدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ سِنَانٍ عَنْ أَبِی الْجَارُودِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِی حَبِیبُ بْنُ سِنَانٍ عَنْ زَاذَانَ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ عَلِیّاً ع یَقُولُ لَوْ لَا أَنِّی سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص یَقُولُ لَوْ لَا أَنَّ الْمَکْرَ وَ الْخَدِیعَهَ وَ الْخِیَانَهَ فِی النَّارِ لَکُنْتُ أَمْکَرَ الْعَرَبِ.

3. It is narrated that Amirul Momineen said, “If I hadn’t heard the words of the Holy Prophet: ‘Indeed, cheating, deception and fraud lead to Hell’, 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).