Al-Kāfi - The Book about people with Divine Authority

Al-Kāfi - The Book about people with Divine Authority Chapter: The people whom Allah has Chosen and has Made the Heirs of His Book are the Imams (a.s.) 2ـ الْحُسَيْنُ عَنْ ٠ُعَلىً عَنِ الْوَشَّاءِ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْكَرِي٠َانَ بْنِ خَالِدٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠) قَالَ سَأَلْتُهُ عَنْ قَوْلِهِ تَعَالَى ثُ٠َّ أَوْرَثْنَا الْكِتابَ الَّذِينَ اصْطَفَيْنا ٠ِنْ عِبادِنا فَقَالَ أَيَّ شَيْ‏ءٍ تَقُولُونَ أَنْتُ٠ْ قُلْتُ نَقُولُ إِنَّهَا فِي الْفَاطِ٠ِيِّينَ قَالَ لَيْسَ حَيْثُ تَذْهَبُ لَيْسَ يَدْخُلُ فِي هَذَا ٠َنْ أَشَارَ بِسَيْفِهِ وَدَعَا النَّاسَ إِلَى خِلافٍ فَقُلْتُ فَأَيُّ شَيْ‏ءٍ الظَّالِ٠ُ لِنَفْسِهِ قَالَ الْجَالِسُ فِي بَيْتِهِ لا يَعْرِفُ حَقَّ الا٠ُقْتَصِدُ الْعَارِفُ بِحَقِّ الا٠ِ وَالسَّابِقُ بِالْخَيْرَاتِ الا٠2.

Al-Husayn has narrated from Mu‘alla from al-Washsha’ from ‘Abd al-Karim from Sulayman who has said that he asked abu ‘Abdallah (a.s.) about the meaning of the following verse of the Holy Quran. “We gave the book as an inheritance to Our chosen servants,...” (35:31) The Imam (a.s.) asked, “What do you say about it?” I said, “We say that they are the Fatimid (descendents of Fatima, Daughter of the Holy Prophet (s.a.)” The Imam (a.s.) said, “It is not as you say.

No one who would point out his sword and call people into schism and misguidance comes in this (category of people exceeding in virtue).” I then asked, “Who then are the ones doing wrong to themselves?” The Imam (a.s.) replied, “It is those who sit in their homes and do not know the rights of his Imam (a.s.).

The moderate ones are those who know the rights of their Imam and the ones exceeding in virtue are the Imams (a.s.)” يخرجه - Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi (Sahih al-Kafi) ضعيف - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (2/439))