Al-Kāfi - The Book about people with Divine Authority

Al-Kāfi - The Book about people with Divine Authority Chapter: The obligation to obey the Imams (a.s.) َّدِ بْنِ أَبِي عُ٠َيْرٍ عَنْ سَيْفِ بْنِ عَ٠ِيرَةَ عَنْ أَبِي الصَّبَّاحِ الْكِنَانِيِّ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠ٌ فَرَضَ الله عَزَّ وَجَلَّ طَاعَتَنَا لَنَا الانْفَالُ وَلَنَا صَفْوُ الْ٠َالِ وَنَحْنُ الرَّاسِخُونَ فِي الْعِلْ٠َحْسُودُونَ الَّذِينَ قَالَ الله أَ٠ْ يَحْسُدُونَ النَّاسَ عَلى‏ ٠6.

Ahmad ibn Muhammad has narrated from Muhammad Ibn Abi ‘Umayr from Sayf ibn ibn ‘Umayr from abu al-Sabah al-Kinani who has said that Imam abu ‘Abdallah (a.s.) who has said the following. “We are a people obedience to whom is obligatory by the command of Allah, the Most Holy, the Most High. The Anfal (twenty percent in tax) is for us and we have been given the authority to choose the best out of the property seized from the enemy. We are the people very firmly established in knowledge.

We are the ones who are considered as subject to the jealousy of people in the following verse of the holy Quran, “Are they jealous of the favors that God has done to some people?. (4:54) صحيح - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (2/325)) صحيح - Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi (Sahih al-Kafi (1/26))