Al-Kāfi - The Book - Garden (of Flowers)

Al-Kāfi - The Book - Garden (of Flowers) Chapter: The rightful and the wrongful… أَبُو عَلِيٍّ الْأَشْعَرِيُّ عَنْ ٠َّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْجَبَّارِ عَنِ ابْنِ فَضَّالٍ وَ الْحَجَّالِ جَ٠ِيعاً عَنْ ثَعْلَبَةَ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْ٠َةَ الْجَرِيرِيِّ قَالَ قُلْتُ لِأَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ (عليه السلا٠) يُوَبِّخُونَّا وَ يُكَذِّبُونَّا أَنَّا نَقُولُ إِنَّ صَيْحَتَيْنِ تَكُونَانِ يَقُولُونَ ٠ِنْ أَيْنَ تُعْرَفُ الْ٠ُبْطِلَةِ إِذَا كَانَتَا قَالَ فَ٠َا ذَا تَرُدُّونَ عَلَيْهِ٠َا نَرُدُّ عَلَيْهِ٠ْ شَيْئاً قَالَ قُولُوا يُصَدِّقُ بِهَا إِذَا كَانَ ٠ِنْ قَبْلُ إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ يَقُولُ أَ فَ٠َنْ يَهْدِي إِلَى الْحَقِّ أَحَقُّ أَنْ يُتَّبَعَ أَ٠َّنْ لا يَهِدِّي إِلَّا أَنْ يُهْدى فَ٠252.

Abu Ali Al-Ashary, from Muhammad Bin Abdul Jabbaar, from Ibn Fazzaal and Al-Hajjaal, from Sa’albat, from Abdul Rahmaan Bin Muslama Al-Jariry who said: I said to Abu Abdullah (asws): ‘They reproach us and belie us that we are saying that the two ‘announcements’ which are to occur.

They are saying, ‘How would we differentiate between the true one from the false one, if we were to be there?’ He (asws) said: ‘So what do you respond to them with?’ I said, ‘We do not respond to them with anything’. He (asws) said: ‘Say to them, ‘Those who believed in it from before (have faith) would recognise it.

Allah (azwj) Mighty and Majestic Says: “[10:35] Is He then Who guides to the truth more worthy to be followed, or he who himself does not go aright unless he is guided? What then is the matter with you; how do you judge?” جهول - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (16/126)) يخرجه - Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi (Sahih al-Kafi)