Al-Kafi · Hadith 12

The Book about people with Divine Authority · The Birth of Abu Ja‘far, Muhammad ibn Ali, the Second (a.s.) · Volume 1, book 4, chapter 122, Hadith 12

Original Arabic text

12ـ سَعْدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الله وَالْحِمْيَرِيُّ جَمِيعاً عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ مَهْزِيَارَ عَنْ أَخِيهِ عَلِيٍّ عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سِنَانٍ قَالَ قُبِضَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ وَهُوَ ابْنُ خَمْسٍ وَعِشْرِينَ سَنَةً وَثَلاثَةِ أَشْهُرٍ وَاثْنَيْ عَشَرَ يَوْماً تُوُفِّيَ يَوْمَ الثَّلاثَاءِ لِسِتٍّ خَلَوْنَ مِنْ ذِي الْحِجَّةِ سَنَةَ عِشْرِينَ وَمِائَتَيْنِ عَاشَ بَعْدَ أَبِيهِ تِسْعَةَ عَشَرَ سَنَةً إِلا خَمْساً وَعِشْرِينَ يَوْماً.

Published English translation

12. Sa‘d ibn ‘Abdallah and Ali-Himyari all have narrated fom Ibrahim ibn Mahziyar from his brother Ali from al-Husayn ibn Sa‘id from Muhammad ibn Sinan who has said the following. “Muhammad ibn Ali (a.s.) passed away at the age of twenty five years, three months and twelve days. He died on a Tuesday on the sixth of Dhil Hajj in the year two hundred twenty AH. He lived nineteen years less twenty five days.”

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: ضعيف على المشهور موقو ف

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (6/108)

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

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

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