Al-Kafi · Hadith 81

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 81

Original Arabic text

81ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ سَالِمٍ عَنْ عَمَّارٍ السَّابَاطِيِّ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) عَنْ قَوْلِ الله عَزَّ وَجَلَّ أَ فَمَنِ اتَّبَعَ رِضْوانَ الله كَمَنْ باءَ بِسَخَطٍ مِنَ الله وَمَأْواهُ جَهَنَّمُ وَبِئْسَ الْمَصِيرُ هُمْ دَرَجاتٌ عِنْدَ الله فَقَالَ الَّذِينَ اتَّبَعُوا رِضْوَانَ الله هُمُ الائِمَّةُ وَهُمْ وَالله يَا عَمَّارُ دَرَجَاتٌ لِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَبِوَلايَتِهِمْ وَمَعْرِفَتِهِمْ إِيَّانَا يُضَاعِفُ الله لَهُمْ أَعْمَالَهُمْ وَيَرْفَعُ الله لَهُمُ الدَّرَجَاتِ الْعُلَى.

Published English translation

81. Ali ibn Muhammad has narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad from ibn Mahbub from Hisham ibn Salim from ‘Ammar al-Sabati who has said the following. “I asked abu ‘Abdallah (a.s.) about the words of Allah, the Most Majestic, the Most gracious. “Are those who seek God’s pleasure equal to those who incur His wrath and whose dwelling will be hell, the terrible destination? (3:162) People are of various grades in the sight of God. .” (3:163) The Imam (a.s.) said, “Those who follow what Allah is pleased are the Imams. They, by Allah, O ‘Ammar, give grades and degrees to the true believers. By means of our Wilaya (Leadership and guardian ship with Divine Authority) and their acknowledgment of us Allah increases the reward for their good deeds and (Allah) raises them to higher positions.”

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: مجهول

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (5/105)

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

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

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