Al-Kafi · Hadith 12

The Book about people with Divine Authority · The Birth of abu Muhammad al-Hassan ibn Ali (a.s.) · Volume 1, book 4, chapter 124, Hadith 12

Original Arabic text

12ـ إِسْحَاقُ عَنِ الاقْرَعِ قَالَ كَتَبْتُ إِلَى أَبِي مُحَمَّدٍ أَسْأَلُهُ عَنِ الامَامِ هَلْ يَحْتَلِمُ وَقُلْتُ فِي نَفْسِي بَعْدَ مَا فَصَلَ الْكِتَابُ الاحْتِلامُ شَيْطَنَةٌ وَقَدْ أَعَاذَ الله تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى أَوْلِيَاءَهُ مِنْ ذَلِكَ فَوَرَدَ الْجَوَابُ حَالُ الائِمَّةِ فِي الْمَنَامِ حَالُهُمْ فِي الْيَقَظَةِ لا يُغَيِّرُ النَّوْمُ مِنْهُمْ شَيْئاً وَقَدْ أَعَاذَ الله أَوْلِيَاءَهُ مِنْ لَمَّةِ الشَّيْطَانِ كَمَا حَدَّثَتْكَ نَفْسُكَ.

Published English translation

12. Ishaq has narrated from al-Aqra‘ who has said the following. “I wrote to abu Muhammad (a.s.) asking him if Imams experience wet dreams? I said to myself after the letter had gone, “Wet dream is something Satanic, and Allah, the Most Holy, the Most High, has protected those whom He has given authority against such things.” The answer came. “The conditions of the Imams when asleep is the same as when they are awake. Sleep does not change anything in them. Allah has given protection to those whom He has given authority from Satanic encounters as you spoke to yourself.”

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: ضعيف

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (6/156)

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

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

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