The birth of Amir al-Mu’minin Ali  عليه السلام — report 1

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1ـ الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يَحْيَى الْفَارِسِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي حَنِيفَةَ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يَحْيَى عَنِ الْوَلِيدِ بْنِ أَبَانٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الله بْنِ مُسْكَانَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) إِنَّ فَاطِمَةَ بِنْتَ أَسَدٍ جَاءَتْ إِلَى أَبِي طَالِبٍ لِتُبَشِّرَهُ بِمَوْلِدِ النَّبِيِّ (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِه) فَقَالَ أَبُو طَالِبٍ اصْبِرِي سَبْتاً أُبَشِّرْكِ بِمِثْلِهِ إِلا النُّبُوَّةَ وَقَالَ السَّبْتُ ثَلاثُونَ سَنَةً وَكَانَ بَيْنَ رَسُولِ الله (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِه) وَأَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) ثَلاثُونَ سَنَةً.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

1. Al-Husayn ibn Muhammad has narrated from Muhammad ibn Yahya al-Farisiy from abu Hanifa Muhammad ibn Yahya from al-Walid ibn Aban from Muhammad ibn ‘Abdallah ibn Muskan from who said: “Abu ‘Abdallah عليه السلام has said, ‘Once, Fatima bint Asad came to Abu Talib with the glad news of the birth of the Holy Prophet صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم . Abu Talib said, “Wait for a sabt then I will give a similar glad news except prophet-hood.” The Imam عليه السلام said, “A sabt is thirty years. Amir al-Mu’minin عليه السلام was born thirty years after the birth of the Holy Prophet صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم .”

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 1, book 4, chapter 113, report 1

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · مجهول · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (5/277)

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

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Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/1/4/113/1. 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.