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Shia hadith/Kitāb al-Ghayba 1

Kitāb al-Ghayba 1, record 101 of the digital edition

Abū ʿAbd Allah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Nuʿmānī · Doubting any of the twelve imams

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Arabic text

1 - حدثنا أحمد بن نصر بن هوذة الباهلي، قال: حدثنا إبراهيم بن إسحاق النهاوندي بنهاوند سنة ثلاث وسبعين ومائتين قال: حدثنا عبد الله بن حماد الأنصاري سنة تسع وعشرين ومائتين قال: حدثنا يحيى بن عبد الله قال: قال لي أبو عبد الله جعفر بن محمد: يا يحيى بن عبد الله، مَن بات ليلة لا يعرف فيها إمامَه مات ميتة جاهلية.

Translation

(1) Ahmad bin Nasr bin Hawtha al-Bahili narrated from Ibraheem bin Iss’haq an-Nahawandi from Abdullah bin Hammad al-Ansari that Yahya bin Abdullah had said: Abu Abdullah Ja’far bin Muhammad as-Sadiq (as) said to me: “O Yahya bin Abdullah, he, who spent a night without knowing his imam, will die as an unbeliever.”

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Chain of narration (isnād)

  1. (1) Ahmad bin Nasr bin Hawtha al-Bahili narrated
  2. Ibraheem bin Iss’haq an-Nahawandi
  3. Abdullah bin Hammad al-Ansari
  4. Yahya bin Abdullah had said: Abu Abdullah Ja’far bin Muhammad as-Sadiq (as) said to me

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