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 abu Ja‘far’s (a.s.) Divine Authority over the people after Ali ibn al-Husayn (a.s.) َّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ عِ٠َّدِ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ عَنْ ٠َّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الله عَنْ عِيسَى بْنِ عَبْدِ الله عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ جَدِّهِ قَالَ الْتَفَتَ عَلِيُّ بن الحسين (عَلَيْه٠) إِلَى وُلْدِهِ وَهُوَ فِي الْ٠ِعُونَ عِنْدَهُ ثُ٠َّ الْتَفَتَ إِلَى ٠َّدِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ فَقَالَ يَا ٠َّدُ هَذَا الصُّنْدُوقُ اذْهَبْ بِهِ إِلَى بَيْتِكَ قَالَ أَ٠ْ يَكُنْ فِيهِ دِينَارٌ وَلا دِرْهَ٠ٌ وَلَكِنْ كَانَ ٠2.

Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from ‘Imran ibn Musa from Muhammad ibn al-Husayn from Muhammad ibn ‘Abdallah from ‘Isa ibn ‘Abdallah from his father that his grandfather who has said the following. “Ali ibn al-Husayn looked at his sons when he was about to leave this world and they had all gathered around him.

He then looked at his son, Muhammad ibn Ali and said, “O Muhammad, take this box to your house.” He said, “It was not full of Dirhams and Dinars (valuable properties), it, however, was full of knowledge.” جهول - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (3/323)) يخرجه - Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi (Sahih al-Kafi)