The birth of Amir al-Mu’minin Ali  عليه السلام — report 3

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ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

3ـ بَعْضُ أَصْحَابِنَا عَمَّنْ ذَكَرَهُ عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنْ عُمَرَ بْنِ أَبَانٍ الْكَلْبِيِّ عَنِ الْمُفَضَّلِ بْنِ عُمَرَ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) يَقُولُ لَمَّا وُلِدَ رَسُولُ الله (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِه) فُتِحَ لآِمِنَةَ بَيَاضُ فَارِسَ وَقُصُورُ الشَّامِ فَجَاءَتْ فَاطِمَةُ بِنْتُ أَسَدٍ أُمُّ أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ إِلَى أَبِي طَالِبٍ ضَاحِكَةً مُسْتَبْشِرَةً فَأَعْلَمَتْهُ مَا قَالَتْ آمِنَةُ فَقَالَ لَهَا أَبُو طَالِبٍ وَتَتَعَجَّبِينَ مِنْ هَذَا إِنَّكِ تَحْبَلِينَ وَتَلِدِينَ بِوَصِيِّهِ وَوَزِيرِهِ.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

3. Certain persons of our people have narrated from those he mentioned from ibn Mahbub from ‘Umar ibn Aban al-Kalbi from al-Mufaddal ibn ‘Umar who has said the following. “I heard abu ‘Abdallah عليه السلام say, ‘When the Messenger of Allah was born the whiteness (houses) of the Persian kingdom and the palaces of Sham (Syria) was shown to Amina, his mother, openly (conquered). Fatima daughter of Asad, mother of Amir al-Mu’minin Ali عليه السلام came to abu Talib laughing with glad news and explained to him what Amina had said. Abu Talib said to her, “Has it surprised you so much? You will conceive a child who will be the executor of the will and the vizier of this new born.”

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 1, book 4, chapter 113, report 3

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · مختلف فيه للمفضل · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (5/282)

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

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Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/1/4/113/3. 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.