The Birth of The Holy Prophet  صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم and His Demise — report 2

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ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

2ـ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ الْحَجَّالِ عَنْ حَمَّادٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) وَذَكَرَ رَسُولَ الله (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِه) فَقَالَ قَالَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) مَا بَرَأَ الله نَسَمَةً خَيْراً مِنْ مُحَمَّدٍ (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِه)

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

2. Muhammad b. Yahya from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from al-Hajjal from Hammad from Abu ‘Abdallah عليه السلام who said the following: When mentioning the Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم he said, “Amir al-Mu’minin Ali عليه السلام has said, “Allah has not created any creature better than Muhammad صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم .”

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 1, book 4, chapter 111, report 2

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · صحيح · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (5/186)

Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi · لم يخرجه · Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

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Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/1/4/111/2. 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.