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Al-Kafi · Hadith 11

The Book about people with Divine Authority · The Birth of the Possessor (of Divine Authority) (a.s.) · Volume 1, book 4, chapter 125, Hadith 11

Original Arabic text

11ـ عَلِيٌّ عَنِ النَّضْرِ بْنِ صَبَّاحٍ الْبَجَلِيِّ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يُوسُفَ الشَّاشِيِّ قَالَ خَرَجَ بِي نَاصُورٌ عَلَى مَقْعَدَتِي فَأَرَيْتُهُ الاطِبَّاءَ وَأَنْفَقْتُ عَلَيْهِ مَالاً فَقَالُوا لا نَعْرِفُ لَهُ دَوَاءً فَكَتَبْتُ رُقْعَةً أَسْأَلُ الدُّعَاءَ فَوَقَّعَ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) إِلَيَّ أَلْبَسَكَ الله الْعَافِيَةَ وَجَعَلَكَ مَعَنَا فِي الدُّنْيَا وَالاخِرَةِ قَالَ فَمَا أَتَتْ عَلَيَّ جُمْعَةٌ حَتَّى عُوفِيتُ وَصَارَ مِثْلَ رَاحَتِي فَدَعَوْتُ طَبِيباً مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا وَأَرَيْتُهُ إِيَّاهُ فَقَالَ مَا عَرَفْنَا لِهَذَا دَوَاءً.

Published English translation

11. Ali has narrated from al-Nadr al-Bajali from md ibn Yusuf al-Shashi who has said the following “A boil had grown on my heaps. I sought treament from several physicians and spent money but they said that they knew of no medicine for it. I then wrote a letter to him (the twelfth Imam (a.s.) requesting him to pray. He wrote back to me with his signature, “May Allah grant you good health and place you with us in this life and in the life hereafter.” The narrator has said that before the coming of the Friday the boil was gone and it became like the palm of my hand. I then called one of the physicians and showed him the place of the boil and he said, “We had no knowledge of any medicine to cure it.”

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: ضعيف

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (6/182)

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

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

Source records non-inclusion in this scholar's selection; this is not itself a weak or authentic grade.

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