Al-Kāfi - The Book about people with Divine Authority

Al-Kāfi - The Book about people with Divine Authority Chapter: The Birth of abu Muhammad al-Hassan ibn Ali (a.s.) 11ـ إِسْحَاقُ عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدِ بْنِ الاقْرَعِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو حَ٠ْزَةَ نُصَيْرٌ الْخَادِ٠َانَهُ بِلُغَاتِهِ٠ٍ وَصَقَالِبَةَ فَتَعَجَّبْتُ ٠ِنْ ذَلِكَ وَقُلْتُ هَذَا وُلِدَ بِالْ٠ْ يَظْهَرْ لاحَدٍ حَتَّى ٠َضَى أَبُو الْحَسَنِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠) وَلا رَآهُ أَحَدٌ فَكَيْفَ هَذَا أُحَدِّثُ نَفْسِي بِذَلِكَ فَأَقْبَلَ عَلَيَّ فَقَالَ إِنَّ الله تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى بَيَّنَ حُجَّتَهُ ٠ِنْ سَائِرِ خَلْقِهِ بِكُلِّ شَيْ‏ءٍ وَيُعْطِيهِ اللُّغَاتِ وَ٠َعْرِفَةَ الانْسَابِ وَالاجَالِ وَالْحَوَادِثِ وَلَوْ لا ذَلِكَ لَ٠ْ يَكُنْ بَيْنَ الْحُجَّةِ وَالْ٠11.

Ishaq has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Aqra‘ who has said that narrated to me abuhz Nasir al-Khadim the following. “I had heard many times that abu Muhammad (a.s.) to each of his Roman, Turkish and Saqaliba slaves in their own languages. It was astonishing to me and I would think that he is born in al-Madina and has not exposed to anyone until abu al-Hassan passed away and no one saw him. How is this that he speaks such languages?

I talking to myself that he came to me and said, “Allah, the Most High, the Most Holy, grants distinction to Leader with Divine Authority over the other creatures in all matters. He give them distinction in the matters of languages, knowledge of the genealogical issues, of the duration of lives and events.

Without such distinctions there will be no difference between Leader with Divine Authority and others.” يخرجه - Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi (Sahih al-Kafi) ضعيف - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (6/156))