The Birth of al-Husayn ibn Ali  عليه السلام — report 7

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ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

7ـ عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَكَمِ عَنْ سَيْفِ بْنِ عَمِيرَةَ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ أَعْيَنَ عَنْ ابي جعفر (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) قَالَ لَمَّا نَزَلَ النَّصْرُ عَلَى الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ حَتَّى كَانَ بَيْنَ السَّمَاءِ وَالارْضِ ثُمَّ خُيِّرَ النَّصْرَ أَوْ لِقَاءَ الله فَاخْتَارَ لِقَاءَ الله.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

7. A number of our companions, from Ahmad bin Muhammad bin ‘Isa, from Ali bin al-Hakam, from Sayf bin ‘Amirah, from al-Malik bin A’yan, from abi Ja’far عليه السلام who said: “When Victory came down upon al-Husayn ibn Ali until it was between the sky and the earth, he then was given the choice between Victory or meeting Allah, so he chose to meet Allah."

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 1, book 4, chapter 116, report 7

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · حسن · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (5/368)

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

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Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/1/4/116/7. 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.