Al-Kafi · Hadith 5

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 5

Original Arabic text

5ـ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ بَزِيعٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْفُضَيْلِ عَنْ أَبِي الصَّبَّاحِ الْكِنَانِيِّ عَنْ ابي جعفر (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) قَالَ سَمِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ وَالله إِنَّ فِي السَّمَاءِ لَسَبْعِينَ صَفّاً مِنَ الْمَلائِكَةِ لَوِ اجْتَمَعَ أَهْلُ الارْضِ كُلُّهُمْ يُحْصُونَ عَدَدَ كُلِّ صَفٍّ مِنْهُمْ مَا أَحْصَوْهُمْ وَإِنَّهُمْ لَيَدِينُونَ بِوَلايَتِنَا.

Published English translation

5. Muhammad b. Yahya, from Ahmad b. Muhammad b. ‘Isa from Muhammad b. Isma'il b. Bazi‘, from Muhammad b. al-Fudayl, from Abu al-Sabbah al-Kinanii from Abu Ja'far (a.s) who said: I heard him say: “By Allah, there are seventy rows of angels in the sky. If all the people on Earth were to gather, they could not count the number of each row of angels, and indeed, they believe in our Wilayah.”

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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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