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Hadith 271
Hadith #
271
Book
Kitāb al-Ghayba
Volume
1
Section
25
Part
Content
Chapter
Reports of Ahle Sunnat that Imams are twelve in number
Source
Shaykh Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī
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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].
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.
Tags The Twelve ImamsOccultation

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