Shaykh Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Ṣaduq · First Objection by the Zaydis: the Reports Proving the Imams Being Twelve Was Fabricated by the Imamiyyah
مَا حَدَّثَنَا بِهِ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ الْقَطَّانُ الْمَعْرُوفُ بِأَبِي عَلِي بْنِ عَبْدِ رَبِّهِ الرَّازِيِّ وَ هُوَ شَيْخٌ كَبِيرٌ لِأَصْحَابِ الْحَدِيثِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو يَزِيدَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى بْنِ خَلَفِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ الْمَرْوَزِيُّ بِالرَّيِّ فِي شَهْرِ رَبِيعٍ الْأَوَّلِ سَنَةَ اثْنَتَيْنِ وَ ثَلَاثِمِائَةٍ عَنْ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الْحَنْظَلِيِّ فِي سَنَةِ ثَمَانٍ وَ ثَلَاثِينَ وَ مِائَتَيْنِ الْمَعْرُوفِ بِإِسْحَاقَ بْنِ رَاهَوَيْهِ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ يَحْيَى عَنْ هِشَامٍ عَنْ مُجَالِدٍعَنِ الشَّعْبِيِّ عَنْ مَسْرُوقٍ قَالَ: بَيْنَا نَحْنُ عِنْدَ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ نَعْرِضُ مَصَاحِفَنَا عَلَيْهِ إِذْ قَالَ لَهُ فَتًى شَابٌّ هَلْ عَهِدَ إِلَيْكُمْ نَبِيُّكُمْ ص كَمْ يَكُونُ مِنْ بَعْدِهِ خَلِيفَةٌ قَالَ إِنَّكَ لَحَدَثُ السِّنِّ وَ إِنَّ هَذَا شَيْءٌ مَا سَأَلَنِي عَنْهُ أَحَدٌ مِنْ قَبْلِكَ نَعَمْ عَهِدَ إِلَيْنَا نَبِيُّنَا ص أَنَّهُ يَكُونُ مِنْ بَعْدِهِ اثْنَا عَشَرَ خَلِيفَةً بِعَدَدِ نُقْبَاءِ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ . <br> و قد أخرجت بعض طرق هذا الحديث في هذا الكتاب و بعضها في كتاب النص على الأئمة الاثني عشر عليه السلام بالإمامة و نقل مخالفونا من أصحاب الحديث نقلا ظاهرا مستفيضا
It is narrated by Ahmad bin al-Hasan al-Qattan known as Abi Ali bin Abde Rabb ar-Razi and he is a noted tradition scholar he says: Narrated to me Abu Yazid Muhammad bin Yahya bin Khalaf bin Yazid al-Maruzi in the city of Rayy in 302 A.H. in the months of Rabi I from Ishaq bin Ibrahim Hanzali who was there in 238 A.H. and was known as Ishaq bin Rahuya from Yahya bin Yahya from Hisham from Mujalid from Shobi from Masrooq that he said: One day we were in the company of Abdullah bin Masud to get our copies of Quran checked by him so that they were free of errors. A young man asked: Has your Prophet told you about the number of his successors? He replied: You are very young and it is something that no one has asked me before. Now I will tell you about it. Yes, our Prophet informed us that indeed there would twelve successors after him and it would be equal to the number of the chiefs of Bani Israel. <br> We have mentioned some chains of narrators of this tradition in this book of ours and some others are mentioned in our another book, An-Nass Alaal Aaimmatul Ithna Ashar (as) bil Imamiyah. In this way, from our opponents some have narrated the traditions of reappearance to the level of usefulness.
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