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Hadith 289
Hadith #
289
Book
Al-Tawḥīd
Volume
1
Section
31
Part
Content
Chapter
The Meaning of “In the Name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful”
Source
Shaykh Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Ṣaduq
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4. My father (RA) said: Sa`d ibn `Abd Allah said, on the authority of Salamah ibn al-Khattab, on the authority of al-Qasim ibn Yahya, on the authority of his grandfather al-Hasan ibn alRashid that
I asked Abu al-Hasan Musa ibn Ja`far (AS) about the meaning of Allah. He (AS) answerd, “He overwhelms both the mighty and subtle.”
4 - حدثنا أبي رحمه الله، قال: حدثنا سعد بن عبد الله، عن سلمة بن الخطاب عن القاسم بن يحيى، عن جده الحسن بن راشد، عن أبي الحسن موسى بن جعفر عليهما السلام، قال
سألته عن معنى الله، قال: استولى على ما دق وجل .
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