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Al-Kafi · Hadith 1

The Book of Supplication · One’s Sincerely Saying: ‘‘No one Deserves to be Worshipped Except Allah” · Volume 2, book 2, chapter 45, Hadith 1

Original Arabic text

1ـ الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ مُعَلَّى بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ وَعِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ جَمِيعاً عَنِ الْوَشَّاءِ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ عَائِذٍ عَنْ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ السَّوَّاقِ عَنْ أَبَانِ بْنِ تَغْلِبَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) قَالَ يَا أَبَانُ إِذَا قَدِمْتَ الْكُوفَةَ فَارْوِ هَذَا الْحَدِيثَ مَنْ شَهِدَ أَنْ لا إِلَهَ إِلا الله مُخْلِصاً وَجَبَتْ لَهُ الْجَنَّةُ قَالَ قُلْتُ لَهُ إِنَّهُ يَأْتِينِي مِنْ كُلِّ صِنْفٍ مِنَ الأصْنَافِ أَ فَأَرْوِي لَهُمْ هَذَا الْحَدِيثَ قَالَ نَعَمْ يَا أَبَانُ إِنَّهُ إِذَا كَانَ يَوْمُ الْقِيَامَةِ وَجَمَعَ الله الأوَّلِينَ وَالآخِرِينَ فَتُسْلَبُ لا إِلَهَ إِلا الله مِنْهُمْ إِلا مَنْ كَانَ عَلَى هَذَا الأمْرِ.

Published English translation

1. Al-Husayn ibn Muhammad has narrated from Mu’alla ibn Muhammad and A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad all from al- Washsha’ from Ahmad ibn ‘Ai’z from abu al-Hassan al-Sawwaq from Aban ibn Taghlib from Abu ‘Abdillah (a.s.) who has said the following: “O Aban, when you will arrive in al-Kufah, narrate this Hadith : ‘Whoever testifies sincerely saying, “No one deserves to be worshipped except Allah,” paradise becomes necessary for him. I (the narrator) then said, ‘All kinds of people will come to me, shall I narrate it to them?’ The Imam said, ‘Yes, O Aban, when it will be the Day of Judgment and Allah will gather all the people of the past and last together, the testimony: ‘No one deserves to be worshipped except Allah,’ will be taken away from them except those who believe in this cause (belief of the followers of Ahl al-Baay (a.s.)).”’

Narrator and transmission

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: موثق

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (12/209)

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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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