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Al-Kafi · Hadith 73

The Book about people with Divine Authority · Enlightening Points Deduced from the Holy Quran about Leadership with Divine Authority) · Volume 1, book 4, chapter 108, Hadith 73

Original Arabic text

73ـ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ نُعَيْمٍ الصَّحَّافِ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) عَنْ قَوْلِهِ فَمِنْكُمْ كافِرٌ وَمِنْكُمْ مُؤْمِنٌ فَقَالَ عَرَفَ الله عَزَّ وَجَلَّ إِيمَانَهُمْ بِمُوَالاتِنَا وَكُفْرَهُمْ بِهَا يَوْمَ أَخَذَ عَلَيْهِمُ الْمِيثَاقَ وَهُمْ ذَرٌّ فِي صُلْبِ آدَمَ وَسَأَلْتُهُ عَنْ قَوْلِهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ أَطِيعُوا الله وَأَطِيعُوا الرَّسُولَ فَإِنْ تَوَلَّيْتُمْ فَإِنَّما عَلى‏ رَسُولِنَا الْبَلاغُ الْمُبِينُ فَقَالَ أَمَا وَالله مَا هَلَكَ مَنْ كَانَ قَبْلَكُمْ وَمَا هَلَكَ مَنْ هَلَكَ حَتَّى يَقُومَ قَائِمُنَا (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) إِلا فِي تَرْكِ وَلايَتِنَا وَجُحُودِ حَقِّنَا وَمَا خَرَجَ رَسُولُ الله (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِه) مِنَ الدُّنْيَا حَتَّى أَلْزَمَ رِقَابَ هَذِهِ الامَّةِ حَقَّنَا وَالله يَهْدِي مَنْ يَشَاءُ إِلَى صِرَاطٍ مُسْتَقِيمٍ.

Published English translation

73. Muhammad in Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from ibn Mahbub from al-Husayn ibn Na‘im al-Sahhaf who has said the following. “I asked abu ‘Abdallah (a.s.) about the words of Allah. “. . some of you have accepted the faith and some of you have not. .” (64:2) The Imam (a.s.) said, “Allah, the Most Majestic, the Most gracious, has defined their faith through their love for us. He has defined their disbelief in the same fact. This took place on the day He asked all the offspring of Adam (in the form of minute beings) to make a covenant.” I then asked him about the words of Allah, the Most Majestic, the Most gracious. “Obey God and the Messenger, but if you turn away, know that the only duty of Our Messenger is to clearly preaCh” (64:12). The Imam (a.s.) said, “By Allah, no one of those who were destroyed before or those who will be destroyed up to the time of the rise of al-Mahdi with Divine Authority but because of disregarding of our Wilaya (Leadership with Divine Authority) and the denial of our rights. The Messenger of Allah did not leave this world before establishing the great responsibility on this ’Umma to observe our rights. Allah guides to the right path whomever he wants.”

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: ضعيف على المشهور

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (5/90)

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Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi: Catalogue non-inclusion note (not an authenticity grade)

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

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