Chapter on the need to refer to the book and Sunnah — report 9

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ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

9ـ عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ النُّعْمَانِ عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ جَابِرٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) قَالَ كِتَابُ الله فِيهِ نَبَأُ مَا قَبْلَكُمْ وَخَبَرُ مَا بَعْدَكُمْ وَفَصْلُ مَا بَيْنَكُمْ وَنَحْنُ نَعْلَمُهُ.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

9. A number of our people has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn ‘Isa from Ali ibn Ni‘man from ’Isma‘il ibn Jabir from abu ‘Abdallah عليه السلام who has said the following. “In the book of Allah there is the news of things before you, the reports of the matters after you and the laws to settle your disputes and we know it all.”

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 1, book 2, chapter 20, report 9

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · صحيح · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (1/209)

Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi · صحيح · Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 1, p. 10

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Arabic witness SHA-256: c6eb62b11d69cc256934181051bf681c88af5a16791f6d68ca776a62582f3651

Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/1/2/20/9. Al-Kafi by al-Kulayni. English translation attributed by the digital catalogue to Muhammad Sarwar. CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. No endorsement implied.