سورة البقرة

Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): A slip of the tongue regarding what Allah dislikes and forbids makes the servant rejected before Allah and provokes His wrath, and it also allots such servants deafness, blindness and dumbness from Allah on the Day of Judgment. As a result, they become as Allah has said: they are deaf, dumb and blind, and do not return from hell.

The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family): O Ibn Mas'ud! A time will come upon the people when one who is patient and steadfast on his religion and its preservation will be like one holding fire in his hand. In that time it will be said: either be a wolf, or else become the wolves' prey. O Ibn Mas'ud! The scholars and jurists of that time are treacherous, corrupt, and the worst of Allah's creation; [not only them, but] those who follow them; those who go to them and take lessons from them, those who love them, those who sit with them and consult them are like them. They are the worst of creation, whom Allah will admit into the fire of Hell. صُمٌّ بُکْمٌ عُمْیٌ فَهُمْ لَا یَرْجِعُونَ [Deaf, dumb, blind, so they do not return].

The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family): O Ibn Mas'ud! Beware of the intoxication of sin, for sin, like wine, and indeed worse than it, brings intoxication. Allah the Exalted says regarding this: [corrupt people] are deaf, dumb and blind, and never return [to the truth].

Ali ibn Ibrahim (may Allah have mercy on him): الصّم [the deaf] is one who does not hear.

The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family): We will resurrect them dragged on their faces upon the ground, while they are deaf, dumb and blind.

Ali ibn Ibrahim (may Allah have mercy on him): بُکم [the dumb] is one who is born blind from his mother.

Ali ibn Ibrahim (may Allah have mercy on him): العُمی [the blind] is one who is [initially] sighted and then becomes blind. (That is, not blind from birth.)

Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): They cannot speak.

The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family): Their place of return and abode is Hell.