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Al-Kafi · Hadith 3

The Book about people with Divine Authority · Tacit and Explicit Testimony as proof of the owner of the House’s (a.s.) Divine Authority over the people abu Muhammad al-Hassan (a.s.) · Volume 1, book 4, chapter 76, Hadith 3

Original Arabic text

3ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ الْكُوفِيِّ عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ الْمَكْفُوفِ عَنْ عَمْرٍو الاهْوَازِيِّ قَالَ أَرَانِي أَبُو مُحَمَّدٍ ابْنَهُ وَقَالَ هَذَا صَاحِبُكُمْ مِنْ بَعْدِي.

Published English translation

3. Ali ibn Muhammad has narrated from Ja‘far ibn Muhammad al-Kufi from Ja‘far ibn Muhammad al-Makfuf from ‘Amr al-Ahwazi who has said the following. “Abu Muhammad (a.s.) showed me his son and said, “This will be your master (Leader with Divine Authority) after me.”

Narrator and transmission

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: ضعيف على المشهور

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (4/2)

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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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Muhammad Sarwar
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