Al-Kafi · Hadith 9

The Book about people with Divine Authority · The Statements and the Explicit Texts on Leadership with Divine Authority) of the Twelve Imams (a.s.) · Volume 1, book 4, chapter 126, Hadith 9

Original Arabic text

9ـ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنْ أَبِي الْجَارُودِ عَنْ ابي جعفر (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الله الانْصَارِيِّ قَالَ دَخَلْتُ عَلَى فَاطِمَةَ (عليها السلام) وَبَيْنَ يَدَيْهَا لَوْحٌ فِيهِ أَسْمَاءُ الاوْصِيَاءِ مِنْ وُلْدِهَا فَعَدَدْتُ اثْنَيْ عَشَرَ آخِرُهُمُ الْقَائِمُ (عجل الله تعالى فرجه الشريف) ثَلاثَةٌ مِنْهُمْ مُحَمَّدٌ وَثَلاثَةٌ مِنْهُمْ عَلِيٌّ.

Published English translation

9. Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Muhammad ibn al-Husayn from ibn Mahbub from Abu al-Jarud from Abu Ja‘far from Jabir b. ‘Abdallah al-Ansari who has said the following: “Once I went to see Fatima (a.s.) (daughter of the Holy Prophet (saww) and I saw with her a tablet in which the names of the executors of the wills of (Leaders with Divine Authority) from her descendants were written. I then counted them to twelve. The last one’s name was al-Qa’im (the one who will rise with Divine authority). The names of three of them was Muhammad and the names of another three was Ali.”

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: ضعيف

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (6/227)

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

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

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