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Shia hadith/Kitāb al-Ghayba 1

Kitāb al-Ghayba 1, record 271 of the digital edition

Shaykh Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī · Reports of Ahle Sunnat that Imams are twelve in number

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Arabic text

95- وبهذا الإسناد عن محمد بن عثمان قال: حدثنا أحمد قال: حدثنا عفان ويحيى بن إسحاق السيلحيني قال: حدثنا حماد بن سلمة قال: حدثنا عبد الله بن عثمان عن أبي الطفيل قال: قال لي عبد الله بن عمر: يا أبا الطفيل، عد اثني عشر من بني كعب بن لؤي. ثم يكون النقف والنقاف.

Translation

H 95 - It is narrated from the same chains of narrators from Muhammad bin Uthman that: Narrated to us Ahmad that: Narrated to us Affan and Yahya bin Ishaq Sailhini that: Narrated to us Hammad bin Salma that: Narrated to us Abdullah bin Uthman from Abi Tufayl that: Abdullah bin Umar said to me: O Aba Tufayl, you must consider twelve persons from the descendants of Kaab bin Loi as the Caliphs of the Messenger of Allah (s), after whom mischief and bloodshed would occur and people would fight each other [as all those who mention the twelve persons would create a great controversy].

Translation: Sayyid Athar Husain S. H. Rizvi — published with the edition, reproduced verbatim.

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Chain of narration (isnād)

  1. H 95 - It is narrated
  2. the same chains of narrators
  3. Muhammad bin Uthman that: Narrated to us Ahmad that: Narrated to us Affan and Yahya bin Ishaq Sailhini that: Narrated to us Hammad bin Salma that: Narrated to us Abdullah bin Uthman
  4. Abi Tufayl that

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