جَوازُ الكَذِبِ فِي الإصلاحِ The Permissibility of Lying for the sake of Reconciliation

8ـ الإمامُ الصّادقُ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): المُصلِحُ ليسَ بِكاذِبٍ .

8– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘The reconciler is not a liar.’[Ibid. p. 210, no. 5]
 

9ـ الإمامُ الصّادقُ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): الكلامُ ثلاثةٌ: صِدقٌ وكِذبٌ وإصلاحٌ بينَ الناسِ ... تَسمَعُ مِنَ الرَّجُلِ كلاما يَبلُغُهُ فَتَخبُثُ نَفسُهُ، فَتَلقاهُ فَتَقُولُ: سَمِعتُ مِن فُلانٍ قالَ فِيكَ مِنَ الخَيرِ كذا وكذا، خِلافَ ما سَمِعتَ مِنهُ.

9– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘Utterances fall under three categories: the truth, the lie, and reconciliation between people … you may hear a man saying something about someone, which when they come to hear will lead them to feel malice towards the former. [In such a situation] you may instead tell them, ‘I heard x speaking such good things about you’, contrary to what you had heard.’[Ibid. p. 341, no. 16]