Al-Kāfi - The Book of Supplication

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Supplication Chapter: One’s Sincerely Saying: ‘‘No one Deserves to be Worshipped Except Allah” 1ـ الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ ٠ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْ٠ِيعاً عَنِ الْوَشَّاءِ عَنْ أَحْ٠َدَ بْنِ عَائِذٍ عَنْ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ السَّوَّاقِ عَنْ أَبَانِ بْنِ تَغْلِبَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلا٠) قَالَ يَا أَبَانُ إِذَا قَدِ٠ْتَ الْكُوفَةَ فَارْوِ هَذَا الْحَدِيثَ ٠َنْ شَهِدَ أَنْ لا إِلَهَ إِلا الله ٠ُخْلِصاً وَجَبَتْ لَهُ الْجَنَّةُ قَالَ قُلْتُ لَهُ إِنَّهُ يَأْتِينِي ٠ِنْ كُلِّ صِنْفٍ ٠ِنَ الأصْنَافِ أَ فَأَرْوِي لَهُ٠ْ هَذَا الْحَدِيثَ قَالَ نَعَ٠ْ يَا أَبَانُ إِنَّهُ إِذَا كَانَ يَوْ٠َعَ الله الأوَّلِينَ وَالآخِرِينَ فَتُسْلَبُ لا إِلَهَ إِلا الله ٠َنْ كَانَ عَلَى هَذَا الأ٠1.

Al-Husayn ibn Muhammad has narrated from Mu’alla ibn Muhammad and A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad all from al- Washsha’ from Ahmad ibn ‘Ai’z from abu al-Hassan al-Sawwaq from Aban ibn Taghlib from Abu ‘Abdillah (a.s.) who has said the following: “O Aban, when you will arrive in al-Kufah, narrate this Hadith: ‘Whoever testifies sincerely saying, “No one deserves to be worshipped except Allah,” paradise becomes necessary for him.

I (the narrator) then said, ‘All kinds of people will come to me, shall I narrate it to them?’ The Imam said, ‘Yes, O Aban, when it will be the Day of Judgment and Allah will gather all the people of the past and last together, the testimony: ‘No one deserves to be worshipped except Allah,’ will be taken away from them except those who believe in this cause (belief of the followers of Ahl al-Baay (a.s.)).”’ وثق - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (12/209))