Hadith 644
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4-130 Ali ibn Ahmad ibn Abdullah ibn Ahmad ibn Aba Abdullah al-Barqy narrated that his father quoted Ahmad ibn Aba Abdullah, on the authority of his father Muhammad ibn Khalid who linked it up through a chain of narrators to Aba Abdullah as-Sadiq (MGB)
“There were four kings on the Earth: two of the believers and two of the atheists. The two of the believers were Solomon - the son of David (MGB) and Zul-Qarnayn. The name of Zul-Qarnayn was Abdullah ibn Zahhak ibn Ma’d. The two atheists were Nimrood and Bakht ul-Nasr.”
4-130 حدثنا علي بن أحمد بن عبد الله بن أحمد بن أبي عبد الله البرقي قال: حدثنا أبي، عن أحمد بن أبي عبد الله، عن أبيه محمد بن خالد باسناده رفعه إلى أبي عبد الله عليه السلام قال
ملك الارض كلها أربعة مؤمنان وكافران فأما المؤمنان فسليمان بن داود عليهما السلام وذو القرنين، والكافران نمرود وبختنصر، واسم ذي القرنين عبد الله بن ضحاك بن معد
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