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ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT
18ـ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الله عَنْ جَمَاعَةٍ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ هِلالٍ عَنْ أُمَيَّةَ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ الْقَيْسِيِّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي دُرُسْتُ بْنُ أَبِي مَنْصُورٍ أَنَّهُ سَأَلَ أَبَا الْحَسَنِ الاوَّلَ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) أَ كَانَ رَسُولُ الله (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِه) مَحْجُوجاً بِأَبِي طَالِبٍ فَقَالَ لا وَلَكِنَّهُ كَانَ مُسْتَوْدَعاً لِلْوَصَايَا فَدَفَعَهَا إِلَيْهِ (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِه) قَالَ قُلْتُ فَدَفَعَ إِلَيْهِ الْوَصَايَا عَلَى أَنَّهُ مَحْجُوجٌ بِهِ فَقَالَ لَوْ كَانَ مَحْجُوجاً بِهِ مَا دَفَعَ إِلَيْهِ الْوَصِيَّةَ قَالَ فَقُلْتُ فَمَا كَانَ حَالُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ قَالَ أَقَرَّ بِالنَّبِيِّ وَبِمَا جَاءَ بِهِ وَدَفَعَ إِلَيْهِ الْوَصَايَا وَمَاتَ مِنْ يَوْمِهِ.
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ENGLISH TRANSLATION
18. Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Sa‘d ibn ‘Abdallah from a group of our people from Ahmad ibn Hilal from ’Umayya ibn Ali al-Qaysi who has said that narrated to me Durust ibn Abi Mansur who has said the following: “I once asked Abu al-Hassan عليه السلام , ‘Did the Messenger of Allah receive any authority from Abu Talib عليه السلام ?” The Imam عليه السلام said, “No, but Abu Talib was the trustee of certain (items) of will that he delivered to the Holy Prophet صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم .’ I then asked, ‘So Abu Talib delivered the wills to the Holy Prophet because of his authority over him?’ The Imam عليه السلام said, “If so, he did not have to deliver the wills to him (The Holy Prophet). I then asked, ‘What was the condition of Abu Talib?’ The Imam عليه السلام replied, ‘He acknowledged the Holy Prophet صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم and his divine message, and delivered him the (items of) will and died on that day.’”
Source & scholarly assessments
Al-Kafi, vol. 1, book 4, chapter 111, report 18
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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · ضعيف · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (5/223)
Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi · لم يخرجه · Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī
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Arabic witness SHA-256: ebc0fa8a0de4b00bed258f3f475373444dece78a40a51a4887ceb8af253ed249
Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/1/4/111/18. 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.
Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/1/4/111/18. 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.
