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Hadith 291
Hadith #
291
Book
Kitāb al-Ghayba
Volume
1
Section
26
Part
Content
Chapter
Shia traditional reports on the topic that Imams are twelve in number
Source
Shaykh Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī
۞
If it is said: First prove to us the veracity of these narrations, for they are singularly narrated traditions and do not prove a topic for sure. This is a subject that requires certainty. Secondly, prove to us that these narrations intend the Imams you believe in. The traditions you narrated from your opponents, and the majority of them you narrated through your own sources, if we set aside their disputability, they do not mention the Imamate of your Imams, because they include others. How do you say that your Imams are the ones intended by these traditions?
فإن قيل: دلوا أولا على صحة هذه الأخبار فإنها أخبار آحاد لا يعول عليها فيما طريقه العلم وهذه مسألة علمية ثم دلوا على أن المعني بها من تذهبون إلى إمامته فإن الأخبار التي رويتموهـا عن مخالفيكم وأكثر ما رويتموهـا من جهة الخاصة إذا سلمت فليس فيها صحة ما تذهبون إليه لأنها تتضمن العدد فحسب ولا تتضمن غير ذلك فمن أين لكم إن أئمتكم هم المرادون بها دون غيرهم.
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