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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Imamate and Leadership The Relationship Between the Qur'an and the Progeny of the Prophet ( 61 ) Lesson Six The hadith concerning the "two weighty trusts" known as hadith a1-thaqalayn is one of the most widely accepted and authoritative of all the traditions narrated from the Prophet peace and blessings be upon him and his family and it has also been recorded in the principal Sunni books of tradition.

It possesses the highest degree of authenticity and acceptance. The text is as follows: "I leave among you two precious and weighty trusts on being the Book of God and the other my Progeny. These two legacies will never be separated from each other and if you lay firm hold of them you will never go astray.

( 1 ) Certain Sunni scholars even add the following sentence at the end of the hadith: " 'Ali is always with the Qur'an and the Qur'an is with 'Ali; they too will not be separated from each other. " ( 2 ) Hadith scholars attribute the transmission of this tradition to roughly thirty of the Prophet.

( 3 ) According to numerous hadith scholars and historians Shi'i and Sunni alike the Prophet peace and blessings be upon him and his family never failed at different times in this life including its difficult last moments to draw people's attention to the profound link between these two great and authoritative sources of Islam the Qur'an and his Progeny () tracing out thereby an entire program for the future of Islam in a single instructive sentence.

Small differences are to ( 62 ) be seen in the form of the relevant traditions some being detailed and others concise depending on the occasion but the content and meaning are always the same: the profound and indissoluble link between the Qur'an and the Progeny of the Prophet peace and blessings be upon him and his family the absolute interrelated ness of the two. Ibn Hajar a Sunni scholar writes: "We have mentioned earlier different versions of this hadith.