Hadith collections / Al-Kafi

Al-Kafi · Hadith 2

The Book of the Excellence of the Holy Quran · Reciting the Holy Quran · Volume 2, book 3, chapter 5, Hadith 2

Original Arabic text

2ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ وَعَلِيِّ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ جَمِيعاً عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ دَاوُدَ عَنْ حَفْصِ بْنِ غِيَاثٍ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ عَلِيَّ بْنَ الْحُسَيْنِ (عَلَيهِما السَّلام) يَقُولُ آيَاتُ الْقُرْآنِ خَزَائِنُ فَكُلَّمَا فُتِحَتْ خِزَانَةٌ يَنْبَغِي لَكَ أَنْ تَنْظُرَ مَا فِيهَا.

Published English translation

2. Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father and Ali ibn Muhammad all from al- Qasim ibn Muhammad from Sulayman ibn Dawud from Hafs ibn Ghiyath from al-Zuhri who has said the following: “I heard Ali ibn al-Husayn (a.s.) saying, ‘Verses of the Holy Quran are treasures, whenever a treasure is opened you should look into it.”’

Narrator and transmission

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: ضعيف

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (2/493)

Assessment transcribed from the source's named scholar and reference. No new grading or consensus is asserted; differing entries remain separate.

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