Tacit and Explicit Testimony as proof of Amir al-Mu’minin Ali’s  عليه السلام Divine Authority over the people after the Messenger of Allah — report 5

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ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

5ـ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ إِدْرِيسَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْجَبَّارِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْمَاعِيلَ عَنْ مَنْصُورِ بْنِ يُونُسَ عَنْ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الْحَضْرَمِيِّ عَنْ ابي جعفر (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) قَالَ عَلَّمَ رَسُولُ الله (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِه) عَلِيّاً (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِه) أَلْفَ حَرْفٍ كُلُّ حَرْفٍ يَفْتَحُ أَلْفَ حَرْفٍ.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

5. Ahmad ibn Idris has narrated from Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Jabbar from Muhammad ibn Isma’il from Mansur ibn Yunus from abu Bakr al-Hadrami from abu Ja‘far عليه السلام who has said the following. “the Messenger of Allah made Ali عليه السلام learn a thousand letters of which each one opens a thousand letters.”

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 1, book 4, chapter 65, report 5

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · حسن كالموثق · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (3/287)

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

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Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/1/4/65/5. 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.