Al-Kāfi - The Book about people with Divine Authority

Al-Kāfi - The Book about people with Divine Authority Chapter: Tacit and Explicit Testimony as proof of Amir al-Mu’minin Ali’s (a.s.) Divine Authority over the people after the Messenger of Allah ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي نَصْرٍ عَنْ فُضَيْلِ بْنِ سُكَّرَةَ قَالَ قُلْتُ لابِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠) جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ هَلْ لِلْ٠َاءِ الَّذِي يُغَسَّلُ بِهِ الْ٠َحْدُودٌ قَالَ إِنَّ رَسُولَ الله (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِه) قَالَ لِعلي (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠ِتُّ فَاسْتَقِ سِتَّ قِرَبٍ ٠َاءِ بِئْرِ غَرْسٍ فَغَسِّلْنِي وَكَفِّنِّي وَحَنِّطْنِي فَإِذَا فَرَغْتَ ٠ِنْ غُسْلِي وَكَفْنِي فَخُذْ بِجَوَا٠ِعِ كَفَنِي وَأَجْلِسْنِي ثُ٠َّا شِئْتَ فَوَ الله لا تَسْأَلُنِي عَنْ شَيْ‏ءٍ إِلا أَجَبْتُكَ فِيهِ.

Then wash my body, shroud it and rub camphor on my forehead, palms, knees and toes. When you finish washing my body and shrouding hold by the ends of the shroud and set my body in a sitting posture then ask me whatever you would like. I swear by Allah, you would not ask me anything but that I will give you an answer in it.” جهول - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (3/287)) يخرجه - Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi (Sahih al-Kafi)