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Shia hadith/Al-Kāfi 1

Al-Kāfi 1, record 230 of the digital edition

Shaykh Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb al-Kulaynī · Chapter on the minimum degree of knowledge of the existence of Allah

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Arabic text

1ـ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ عَنْ عَبْدِ الله بْنِ الْحَسَنِ الْعَلَوِيِّ وَعَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنِ الْمُخْتَارِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْمُخْتَارِ الْهَمْدَانِيِّ جَمِيعاً عَنِ الْفَتْحِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ عَنْ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) قَالَ سَأَلْتُهُ عَنْ أَدْنَى الْمَعْرِفَةِ فَقَالَ الاقْرَارُ بِأَنَّهُ لا إِلَهَ غَيْرُهُ وَلا شِبْهَ لَهُ وَلا نَظِيرَ وَأَنَّهُ قَدِيمٌ مُثْبَتٌ مَوْجُودٌ غَيْرُ فَقِيدٍ وَأَنَّهُ لَيْسَ كَمِثْلِهِ شَيْ‏ءٌ.

Translation

1 - Muhammad ibn al-Hasan reported from Abdullah ibn al-Hasan al-Alawi, and Ali ibn Ibrahim reported from al-Mukhtar ibn Muhammad ibn al-Mukhtar al-Hamdani, all from al-Fath ibn Yazid, from Abu al-Hasan (as), who said: "I asked him about the lowest level of knowledge. He said: 'The acknowledgment that there is no deity other than Him, and that there is no similarity or counterpart to Him, and that He is Eternal, Affirmed, Existing, not lacking anything, and that there is nothing like Him.'"

Translation: Muhammad Sarwar — published with the edition, reproduced verbatim.

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Chain of narration (isnād)

  1. 1 - Muhammad ibn al-Hasan reported
  2. Abdullah ibn al-Hasan al-Alawi, and Ali ibn Ibrahim reported
  3. al-Mukhtar ibn Muhammad ibn al-Mukhtar al-Hamdani, all
  4. al-Fath ibn Yazid
  5. Abu al-Hasan (as), who said

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  • Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi

    مجهول

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    Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (1/301)

  • Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi

    لم يخرجه

    Published in Arabic as the scholar wrote it. No reviewed English rendering exists yet.

    Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

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