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Al-Kafi · Hadith 3

The Book about people with Divine Authority · Notable Points and Comprehensive Ahadith about Wilaya (Leadership with Divine Authority) · Volume 1, book 4, chapter 109, Hadith 3

Original Arabic text

3ـ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ سَلَمَةَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ سَيْفٍ عَنِ الْعَبَّاسِ بْنِ عَامِرٍ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ رِزْقٍ الْغُمْشَانِيِّ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) قَالَ وَلايَتُنَا وَلايَةُ الله الَّتِي لَمْ يَبْعَثْ نَبِيّاً قَطُّ إِلا بِهَا.

Published English translation

3. Muhammad b. Yahya has narrated from Salama b. al-Khattab from Ali b. Sayf from al-‘Abbas b. ‘Amir from Ahmad b. Rizq al-Ghumushani from Muhammad b. ‘Abd al-Rahman from Abi ‘Abdillah (a.s.) who has said the following: “Our Wilaya is the Wilaya of Allah without which no prophet was ever sent.”

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: كالسابق

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (5/164)

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

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

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