The birth of Amir al-Mu’minin Ali  عليه السلام — report 9

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ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

9ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ رَفَعَهُ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) لَمَّا غُسِلَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) نُودُوا مِنْ جَانِبِ الْبَيْتِ إِنْ أَخَذْتُمْ مُقَدَّمَ السَّرِيرِ كُفِيتُمْ مُؤَخَّرَهُ وَإِنْ أَخَذْتُمْ مُؤَخَّرَهُ كُفِيتُمْ مُقَدَّمَهُ.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

9. Ali ibn Muhammad has narrated from in a marfu‘ manner from abu ‘Abdallah عليه السلام who has said the following. “When Amir al-Mu’minin Ali عليه السلام was washed for burial they called from the side of the house, “If you would lift up the front of the coffin you would not need to lift up the back of the coffin and if you would lift up the back side then you would not need to lift up the front side.”

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 1, book 4, chapter 113, report 9

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · مرفوع · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (5/310)

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

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Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/1/4/113/9. 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.