Al-Kafi · Hadith 1

The Book on Oneness of Allah (God) · Chapter on the issue that there is nothing in heavens and earth but that they are in seven · Volume 1, book 3, chapter 25, Hadith 1

Original Arabic text

1ـ عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ وَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ وَمُحَمَّدِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ جَمِيعاً عَنْ فَضَالَةَ بْنِ أَيُّوبَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عُمَارَةَ عَنْ حَرِيزِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الله وَعَبْدِ الله بْنِ مُسْكَانَ جَمِيعاً عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) أَنَّهُ قَالَ لا يَكُونُ شَيْ‏ءٌ فِي الارْضِ وَلا فِي السَّمَاءِ إِلا بِهَذِهِ الْخِصَالِ السَّبْعِ بِمَشِيئَةٍ وَإِرَادَةٍ وَقَدَرٍ وَقَضَاءٍ وَإِذْنٍ وَكِتَابٍ وَأَجَلٍ فَمَنْ زَعَمَ أَنَّهُ يَقْدِرُ عَلَى نَقْضِ وَاحِدَةٍ فَقَدْ كَفَرَ. وَرَوَاهُ عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ حَفْصٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عُمَارَةَ عَنْ حَرِيزِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الله وَابْنِ مُسْكَانَ مِثْلَهُ.

Published English translation

1. It is narrated from a number of our people from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Khalid from his father and Muhammad ibn Yahya from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn ‘Isa from al-Husayn ibn Sa‘id and Muhammad ibn Khalid altogether from Fudala ibn Ayyub from Muhammad ibn ‘Ammara from Hariz ibn ‘Abdallah and ‘Abdallah ibn Maskan altogether from abu ‘Abdallah (a.s.) who said the following. “There is nothing in the heavens and on earth without these seven charateristics: the wish, the will, the measure, the decree, the permission, the record and duration.Whoever thinks that he can do without any one of these he has become a unbeliever.” From Ali ibn Ibrahim from his father from Muhammad ibn Hafs from Muhammad ibn ‘Ammara from Hariz ibn ‘Abdallah and ibn Maskan a similar Hadith is narrated.

Narrator and transmission

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: مجهول بسنديه

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (2/149)

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Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi: صحيح

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 1, p. 19

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