The Sufficient (Vol 8) · Hadith 275 (#Ḥadīth #1)

الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْأَشْعَرِيُّ عَنْ مُعَلَّى بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ الْوَشَّاءِ عَنْ مُثَنًّى عَنْ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ (عليه السلام) قَالَ [إِنَّ] النَّاسَ طَبَقَاتٌ ثَلَاثٌ طَبَقَةٌ هُمْ مِنَّا وَ نَحْنُ مِنْهُمْ وَ طَبَقَةٌ يَتَزَيَّنُونَ بِنَا وَ طَبَقَةٌ يَأْكُلُ بَعْضُهُمْ بَعْضاً [بِنَا].

275. Al-Husayn Bin Muhammad Al-Ashary, from Moalla Bin Muhammad, from Al-Hassan Bin Ali Al-Washaa, from Musanna, from Abu Baseer, who has narrated the following: Abu Abdullah has said that: ‘The people are of three levels – A level who are from us and we are from them; and a level who adorn themselves by us (our name); and a level who eat each other by us (our name)’.

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