Hadiths Of Three Types of Friends

الإمام جعفر الصادق (عليه السَّلام ):

الْإِخْوَانُ ثَلَاثَةٌ فَوَاحِدٌ كَالْغِذَاءِ الَّذِي يُحْتَاجُ إِلَيْهِ كُلَّ وَقْتٍ فَهُوَ الْعَاقِلُ وَ الثَّانِي فِي مَعْنَى الدَّاءِ وَ هُوَ الْأَحْمَقُ وَ الثَّالِثُ فِي مَعْنَى الدَّوَاءِ فَهُوَ اللَّبِيب‏ .

Imam Ja‘far al-Ṣadiq (as):

Brothers are of three types: one, like food, is needed all the time and he is the wise friend, another is similar to disease and this is the fool, and the third is like medicine and this is the tactful friend.

Source: Bahar alanevar Vol75 P238 Tuḥaf al-‘Uqūl No323

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الإمام علي (عليه السَّلام):

. إِيَّاكَ وَ مُصَادَقَةَ الْأَحْمَقِ فَإِنَّهُ يُرِيدُ أَنْ يَنْفَعَكَ فَيَضُرُّك‏

Imam Ali (as):

Beware of befriending a fool, for even though he wants to benefit you, he usually ends up harming you.

Source: Nahj al-Balāgha Vol1 P475

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الإمام علي (عليه السَّلام):

أَكْبَرُ الْحُمْقِ الْإِغْرَاقُ فِي الْمَدْحِ وَ الذَّمِّ .

Imam Ali (as):

The greatest stupidity is one's exaggeration in his praising and disparaging [of others].

Source: ‘Uyūn al-Ḥikam wal-Mawā’iḍ Vol1 P118 Ghurar al-Ḥikam Vol1 P192

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رسول الله (صلی الله علیه و آله):

منَ كانَ في قَلبِهِ حَبَّةٌ مِن خَردَلٍ مِن عَصَبِيَّةٍ بَعَثَهُ اللّهُ يَومَ القِيامَةِ مَعَ أعرابِ الجاهِلِيَّةِ .

The Prophet Muhammad (S):

Whoever contains even a mustard seed’s weight of partisanship in his heart, Allah will raise him on the Day of Resurrection among the tribes of pagan and clannish Arabia.

Source: al-Kāfī Vol2 P308

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