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ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT
6ـ عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنْ صَالِحِ بْنِ سَهْلٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) أَنَّ بَعْضَ قُرَيْشٍ قَالَ لِرَسُولِ الله (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِه) بِأَيِّ شَيْءٍ سَبَقْتَ الانْبِيَاءَ وَأَنْتَ بُعِثْتَ آخِرَهُمْ وَخَاتَمَهُمْ قَالَ إِنِّي كُنْتُ أَوَّلَ مَنْ آمَنَ بِرَبِّي وَأَوَّلَ مَنْ أَجَابَ حِينَ أَخَذَ الله مِيثَاقَ النَّبِيِّينَ وَأَشْهَدَهُمْ عَلَى أَنْفُسِهِمْ أَ لَسْتُ بِرَبِّكُمْ قَالُوا بَلَى فَكُنْتُ أَنَا أَوَّلَ نَبِيٍّ قَالَ بَلَى فَسَبَقْتُهُمْ بِالاقْرَارِ بِالله.
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ENGLISH TRANSLATION
6. A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from Ibn Mahbub from Salih b. Sahl from Abu ‘Abdallah عليه السلام who has said the following: “Certain persons from Quraysh asked the Messenger of Allah, ‘By what means did you excel the prophets and you were sent as the last of them as their seal?” The Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم said, “I was the first to believe in my Lord, and the first to answer Allah when He called the prophets to make a covenant and bear testimony against their own souls to acknowledge and answer positively when asked ‘Am I not your Lord?’ They all had answered, ‘Yes, You Are our Lord.’ I was the first prophet that said, “Yes, You are our Lord.” I, thus, excelled them in the acknowledgment of the Oneness of Allah”
Source & scholarly assessments
Al-Kafi, vol. 1, book 4, chapter 111, report 6
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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · ضعيف · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (5/193)
Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi · لم يخرجه · Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī
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Arabic witness SHA-256: ca2bba6650d9b9c2c0ce1b5c75cbe2d440f303b0b54efeec20d01089d3759aad
Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/1/4/111/6. 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/1/4/111/6. 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.
