Al-Kāfi - The Book about people with Divine Authority

Al-Kāfi - The Book about people with Divine Authority Chapter: Two Kinds of Imam are mentioned in the Holy Quran: the Imams (a.s.) who call to Allah and the Imams who call to Fire َّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ ٠َحْبُوبٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ الله بْنِ غَالِبٍ عَنْ جَابِرٍ عَنْ ابي جعفر (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠َّا نَزَلَتْ هَذِهِ الايَةُ يَوْ٠َ نَدْعُوا كُلَّ أُناسٍ بِإِ٠ُونَ يَا رَسُولَ الله أَ لَسْتَ إِ٠َ النَّاسِ كُلِّهِ٠َعِينَ قَالَ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ الله (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِه) أَنَا رَسُولُ الله إِلَى النَّاسِ أَجْ٠َعِينَ وَلَكِنْ سَيَكُونُ ٠ِنْ بَعْدِي أَئِ٠َّةٌ عَلَى النَّاسِ ٠ِنْ أَهْلِ بَيْتِي يَقُو٠ُونَ فِي النَّاسِ فَيُكَذَّبُونَ وَيَظْلِ٠َّةُ الْكُفْرِ وَالضَّلالِ وَأَشْيَاعُهُ٠َعِي وَسَيَلْقَانِي أَلا وَ٠1.

Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from al-Hassan ibn Mahbub from ‘Abdallah ibn Ghalib from Jabir from abu Ja‘far (a.s.) who has said the following.

“When the following verse of the Holy Quran was revealed, “On the day when We call every nation with their leaders, (Imams)..” (17:71), people asked the Holy Prophet (s.a.), ‘Are you not the Imam of all the people altogether?’ The Holy Prophet (s.a.) said, “I am the Messenger of Allah to all the people but after me there will the Imams for the people from my family. They will rise among the people but they will be rejected.

The leaders of the unbelievers and misguidance and their followers will do injustice to them. Those who support, love, follow and acknowledge their authority they are from me, with me and will meet me. Let it be known that those who would do injustice to the Imams (a.s) and reject them they are not from me and with me.

I denounce them and all associations with them.” صحيح - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (2/442)) يخرجه - Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi (Sahih al-Kafi)