Al-Kāfi - The Book about people with Divine Authority

Al-Kāfi - The Book about people with Divine Authority Chapter: Enlightening Points Deduced from the Holy Quran about Leadership with Divine Authority) 54ـ وَبِهَذَا الاسْنَادِ عَنْ أَحْ٠َرَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ عَنْ ٠َّدِ بْنِ الْفُضَيْلِ عَنِ الرِّضَا (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠) قَالَ قُلْتُ قُلْ بِفَضْلِ الله وَبِرَحْ٠َتِهِ فَبِذلِكَ فَلْيَفْرَحُوا هُوَ خَيْرٌ ٠َعُونَ قَالَ بِوَلايَةِ ٠54.

Through the same chain of narrators it is narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from ‘Umar ibn ‘Abd al-‘Aziz from Muhammad ibn al-Fudayl who has said the following “I asked al-Rida (a.s.) about the words of Allah.

“(Muhammad), tell them, “To be happy with the favors and mercy of God is better than whatever you accumulate.” (10:58) The Imam (a.s.) said, “To acknowledge the Wilaya of the family of Muhammad (s.a.) is better than all that they accumulate of the worldly gains.” يخرجه - Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi (Sahih al-Kafi) كالسابق - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (5/68))