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Hadith 275
Hadith #
275
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 99 - It is narrated from the same chains of narrators from Talakbari from Abu Ali Muhammad bin Himam from Hasan bin Ali Quhistani from Zaid bin Ishaq from his father that he said
I asked Isa bin Musa: Have you met any of the companions of the companions? He replied: I don’t know what you are saying, but I was in Kufa, when I heard an old man narrating a tradition from Abdul Khair in Kufa Masjid. He said: Amirul Momineen (a.s) said: the Messenger of Allah (s) told me, “O Ali! The rightly guided, infallible Imams from your progeny are eleven.” And so on…
99- وبهذا الإسناد عن التلعكبري، عن أبي علي محمد بن همام، عن الحسن بن علي القوهستاني، عن زيد بن إسحاق،عن أبيه قال
سألت أبي عيسى بن موسى فقلت له: من أدركت من التابعين؟فقال: ما أدري ما تقول؟ولكني كنت بالكوفة فسمعت شيخا في جامعها يحدث عن عبد خير قال: قال أمير المؤمنين عليه السلام: قال لي رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم: يا علي، الأئمة الراشدون المهديون المغصوبون حقوقهم من ولدك أحد عشر إماما وأنت… والحديث مختصر.
Tags The Twelve ImamsOccultation

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