Al-Kafi · Hadith 1

The Book about people with Divine Authority · The Birth of Abu Ja‘far, Muhammad ibn Ali (a.s.) · Volume 1, book 4, chapter 118, Hadith 1

Original Arabic text

1ـ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَحْمَدَ عَنْ عَبْدِ الله بْنِ أَحْمَدَ عَنْ صَالِحِ بْنِ مَزْيَدٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ الله بْنِ الْمُغِيرَةِ عَنْ أَبِي الصَّبَّاحِ عَنْ ابي جعفر (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) قَالَ كَانَتْ أُمِّي قَاعِدَةً عِنْدَ جِدَارٍ فَتَصَدَّعَ الْجِدَارُ وَسَمِعْنَا هَدَّةً شَدِيدَةً فَقَالَتْ بِيَدِهَا لا وَحَقِّ الْمُصْطَفَى مَا أَذِنَ الله لَكَ فِي السُّقُوطِ فَبَقِيَ مُعَلَّقاً فِي الْجَوِّ حَتَّى جَازَتْهُ فَتَصَدَّقَ أَبِي عَنْهَا بِمِائَةِ دِينَارٍ قَالَ أَبُو الصَّبَّاحِ وَذَكَرَ أَبُو عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) جَدَّتَهُ أُمَّ أَبِيهِ يَوْماً فَقَالَ كَانَتْ صِدِّيقَةً لَمْ تُدْرَكْ فِي آلِ الْحَسَنِ امْرَأَةٌ مِثْلُهَا. مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ عَنْ عَبْدِ الله بْنِ أَحْمَدَ مِثْلَهُ.

Published English translation

1. Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from from Muhammad ibn Ahmad from ‘Abdillah ibn Ahmad from Salih ibn Mazyad from ‘Abdillah ibn al-Mughira from Abu al-Sabbah that Abu Ja‘far (al- baqir) (as) said: “My mother was sitting by a wall when it began to crack, and we heard a loud noise. She raised her hand and said, "No, by the right of Al-Mustafa (the Prophet Muhammad), God has not permitted you to fall." The wall remained suspended in the air until she passed by. My father then gave charity on her behalf of one hundred dinars. Abu Sabbah mentioned that Imam al-Sadiq (as) once spoke of his grandmother, saying, "She was a truthful woman; there was no woman like her among the descendants of Hasan." Muhammad ibn al-Hasan reported from Abdillah ibn Ahmad the same account.

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: ضعيف بسنديه بعبدال بن أحم د

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (6/15)

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

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

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