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The Prophet appointed His Successor 2 - Al-Shia The Scientific and Cultural Website of Shia belief The Prophet appointed His Successor 2 2022-12-15 470 Views Imamate , hip In continuation of the discussion on the issue of successorship after the death of the Prophet, we shall focus in this part of the article on other textual evidence to establish the claim that the Prophet appointed a successor before he died.

Ahmad further records: حدثنا عبد الله حدثني أبي ثنا أبو أحمد الزبيري ثنا شريك عن الركين عن القاسم بن حسان عن زيد بن ثابت قال قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه و سلم إني تارك فيكم خليفتين كتاب الله وأهل بيتي وإنهما لن يتفرقا حتى يردا على الحوض جميعا ‘Abd Allah (b. Ahmad) – my father (Ahmad b. Hanbal) – Abu Ahmad al-Zubayri – Sharik – al-Rakin – al-Qasim b. Hisan – Zayd b. Thabit: The Messenger of Allah, (PBUH&HP), said: “I AM LEAVING BEHIND AMONG YOU two khalifahs: the Book of Allah and my .

Both shall never separate from each other until they meet me together at the Lake-Font.” (1) Al-Arnaut again says: حديث صحيح بشواهده دون قوله : وإنهما لن يتفرقا حتى يردا علي الحوض جميعا The hadith is sahih through its shawahid, except his statement, “Both shall never separate from each other until they meet me together at the Lake-Font.” (2) Imam al-Haythami (d.

807 H) too copies this report from Musnad Ahmad : عن زيد بن ثابت قال : قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه و سلم: إني تارك فيكم خليفتين : كتاب الله عز و جل حبل ممدود ما بين السماء والأرض – أو ما بين السماء إلى الأرض – وعترتي أهل بيتي وإنهما لن يتفرقا حتى يردا علي الحوض Narrated Zayd b. Thabit: The Messenger of Allah, (PBUH&HP), said, “I AM LEAVING BEHIND AMONG YOU two khalifahs: the Book of Allah – a rope stretching between the heaven and the earth or from the heaven to the earth – and my bloodline, my .

Both shall never separate from each other until they meet me at the Lake Font.” (3) And he passes this verdict: رواه أحمد وإسناده جيد Ahmad has narrated it and its chain is good. It was the Prophet himself who was personally leaving behind the Qur’an and his bloodline as khalifahs among his Ummah . In fact, in one of the reports, he called them “ the two khalifahs after me”, thereby fixing and restricting the Khilafah to them.

In any case, both the Qur’an and his bloodline are his khalifahs , appointed by him, according to the authentic ahadith above. Something to note at this point is that the word khalifah is both singular and plural, as submitted by Imam al-Raghib al-Isfahani (d.