Then the scholars and the jurisprudents asked the people to keep quiet...

Then the scholars and the jurisprudents asked the people to keep quiet, saying: “Hear and listen and remain calm in order that you may hear what would benefit you, and do not trouble us by excessive crying and weeping:’ Thereafter the Imam (‘Ali) Ar-Rdha said: “Narrated to me my father Musa al-Kazim from his father Ja’far as-Sadiq, from his father Muhammad al-Baqir, from his father ‘Ali Zaynu ‘l-’Abedein, from his father al-Husayn the martyr of Karbala, from his father ‘Ali ibn Abi Talib that he said: ‘Narrated to me my beloved and the delight of my eye, the Messenger of Allah (S) from Jibra’il, that he said: “I heard the Mighty and Exalted Lord saying: ‘The Kalimah, La Ilaha Illallah, is My fort, and whoever utters it enters My fort, and whoever enters My fort becomes safe from my chastisement:” Then the shade was drawn on the howdah and he proceeded a little, and then he called to them: “(It depends) on its conditions and I am one of its conditions,” This hadith was written on that day in that place by more than twenty thousand scribes[^4].

It is one of the traditions agreed upon by Sunnis and Shi’as both; and is narrated by scholars of both sects. The famous Sunni muhadd ith Abu Nu’aym al-Isfihani has narrated it in his well-known book, Hilyatu ‘l-awliya’; and then he writes: “This hadith is confirmed and famous, with these…