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Al-Kafi · Hadith 1

The Book of Supplication · One’s Saying: I Testify That No One Deserves to be Worshipped Except Allah Alone Who Has No Partner and I Testify That Muhammad is His Servant and Messenger · Volume 2, book 2, chapter 40, Hadith 1

Original Arabic text

1ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ الْحَذَّاءِ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) قَالَ مَنْ قَالَ أَشْهَدُ أَنْ لا إِلَهَ إِلا الله وَحْدَهُ لا شَرِيكَ لَهُ وَأَشْهَدُ أَنَّ مُحَمَّداً عَبْدُهُ وَرَسُولُهُ كَتَبَ الله لَهُ أَلْفَ أَلْفِ حَسَنَةٍ.

Published English translation

1. Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father from Ibn Abi ‘Umayr from Sa’Id from abu ‘Ubaydah al-Hadhdha’ from abu Ja’far (a.s.) who has said the following: “Whoever says, ‘I testify that no one deserves to be worshipped except Allah alone, Who has no partner, and I testify that Muhammad is His servant and Messenger, Allah will write down for him one million good deeds.’”

Narrator and transmission

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: حسن على الظاهر

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (2/204)

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

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

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Al-Kafi, volume 2, Thaqalayn digital edition / Muhammad Sarwar translation
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Muhammad Sarwar
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