‘Kitab Sifaat Al Shia’ – from Ali Bin Ahmad Bin Abdullah...
‘Kitab Sifaat Al Shia’ – from Ali Bin Ahmad Bin Abdullah, from his father, from his grandfather Ahmad Bin Abu Abdullah, from his father, from Amro bin Shimr, from Ubeydullah, ‘From Al-Sadiq -asws having said: ‘One who acknowledges with seven things, so he is a Momin – the disavowing from the idols and the tyrants, and the acknowledgement with the Wilayah, and the Eman with the Return (Raj’at), and the permissibility of the Mut’ah (temporary marriage) and prohibiting the eel and the wiping (Mas’ah) upon the socks’’.
Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from Ibn Fazaal, from Sa’alba, from Ali Bin Abdul Aziz who said, ‘Abu Abdullah -asws (6 th Imam -asws ) said to me: ‘Shall I -asws inform you with the root of Al-Islam and its branch, and its peak and its high point?’ I said, ‘Yes’. He -asws said: ‘Its root is the Salāt (Prayer), and its branch is the Zakāt , and its peak and its high point is the Jihad in the Way of Allah -azwj . Shall I ‑asws inform you of the doors of the goodness?
The Fast ( Soām ) is a shield’. [9] The Five Pillars of Islam: حَدَّثَنِي الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْأَشْعَرِيُّ عَنْ مُعَلَّى بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ الزِّيَادِيِّ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ الْوَشَّاءِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبَانُ بْنُ عُثْمَانَ عَنْ فُضَيْلٍ عَنْ أَبِي حَمْزَةَ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ع قَالَ بُنِيَ الْإِسْلَامُ عَلَى خَمْسٍ عَلَى الصَّلَاةِ وَ الزَّكَاةِ وَ الصَّوْمِ وَ الْحَجِّ وَ الْوَلَايَةِ وَ لَمْ يُنَادَ بِشَيْءٍ كَمَا نُودِيَ بِالْوَلَايَةِ Al Husayn Bin Muhammad Al Ashary narrated to me, from Moalla Bin Muhammad Al Ziyadi, from Al Hassan Bin Ali Al Washa who said, ‘Aban Bin Usman narrated to us, from Fuzayl Bin Abu Hamza, Abu Ja’far -asws has said: ‘ Islām is built upon five – Upon the Salāt , and the Zakāt , and the Soām (Fasts), and the Hajj , and the Wilayah , and we -asws do not call (emphasise) with anything like what we -asws called (have emphasised) with the Wilayah ’.