Al-Khiṣāl - Part 12: On Twelve-Numbered Characteristics

Al-Khiṣāl - Part 12: On Twelve-Numbered Characteristics Chapter: The Twelve Caliphs and Divine Leaders after the Prophet د بن الحسن القطان قال: حدثنا أبوعبدالرح٠ن عبد الله بن سعدان بن سهل اليشكري قال: حدثنا أح٠قال: حدثنا يزيد يعني ابن زريع قال: حدثنا ابن عون، عن الشعبي عن جابر بن س٠رة قال: قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله: لايزال هذا الدين عزيزا ٠إلى اثنى عشر خليفة، وقال كل٠نيها الناس فقلت لابي: ٠نيها الناس؟ فقال: قال: كله٠12-18 Ahmad ibn al-Hassan al-Qat’tan narrated that Abu Abdul Rahman Abdullah ibn Sa’edan ibn Sahl al-Yashkari quoted Ahmad ibn al-Miqdam, on the authority of Yazid - ibn Zari’a, on the authority of Jabir ibn Samurah that God’s Prophet (MGB) said, “This dear and invulnerable religion will not end and it shall overcome all its enemies until there come twelve Caliphs.” Then the Prophet (MGB) said something which the people could not hear.

I asked my father, ‘What was it that the people could not hear?’ My father said, ‘The Prophet (MGB) said, ‘They are all from the Quraysh.’”