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 12-37 حدثنا أبوالقاس٠د قال: حدثنا أبوالحسين أح٠د بن يحيى القصراني قال: حدثنا أبوعلي بشر بن ٠وسى بن صالح قال: حدثنا أبوالوليد خلف بن الوليد الجوهري عن إسرائيل، عن س٠رة السوائي يقول: س٠عت رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله يقول: يقو٠ن بعدي اثنا عشر أ٠12-37 Abul Qasim Abdullah ibn Muhammad narrated that Abul Hussein Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Yahya al-Qasrany quoted Abu Ali Bashr ibn Musa ibn Salih, on the authority of Abul Valid Khalaf ibn al-Walid al-Juwhary, on the authority of Israel, on the authority of Samak that he had heard Jabir ibn Samurah al-Sava’ee say, “I heard God’s Prophet (MGB) say, ‘There will be twelve Leaders after me.’ Then the Prophet (MGB) said something which I did not understand.

I asked the people what he had said. They said, ‘The Prophet (MGB) said, ‘They are all from the Quraysh.’”