The Sufficient (Vol 5) · Hadith 122 (#Ḥadīth #5)
Chapter 28 | Commanding others what is Obligatory and to Prohibit them from doing Evil
5- وَبِإِسْنَادِهِ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ بِئْسَ الْقَوْمُ قَوْمٌ يَعِيبُونَ الأمْرَ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَالنَّهْيَ عَنِ الْمُنْكَرِ.
5. The narrator of the previous Hadith through his chain of narrators has said the following: “Abu Ja’far , has said, ‘A people, who consider asking others to do good and prohibiting them from evil, a blame-worthy act, are a terribly evil people.’”
Gradings are classical jarḥ-wa-taʿdīl, name-matched to a rijāl index (not individually re-verified).