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 6

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ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

6ـ عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَكَمِ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي حَمْزَةَ عَنْ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) قَالَ كَانَ فِي ذُؤَابَةِ سَيْفِ رَسُولِ الله (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِه) صَحِيفَةٌ صَغِيرَةٌ فَقُلْتُ لابِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) أَيُّ شَيْ‏ءٍ كَانَ فِي تِلْكَ الصَّحِيفَةِ قَالَ هِيَ الاحْرُفُ الَّتِي يَفْتَحُ كُلُّ حَرْفٍ أَلْفَ حَرْفٍ قَالَ أَبُو بَصِيرٍ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) فَمَا خَرَجَ مِنْهَا حَرْفَانِ حَتَّى السَّاعَةِ.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

6. A number of our people has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from Ali ibn al-Hakam from Ali ibn abu Hamza from abu Basir from au ‘Abdallah عليه السلام who has said the following. “In the hilt of the sword of the the Messenger of Allah there was a small booklet.” The narrator has said that then he asked the Imam عليه السلام , “What did that booklet contain?” The Imam عليه السلام said, “It contained the few letters of which each letter opened a thousand letters. Abu Basir has said that abu ‘Abdallah عليه السلام then said, “Until this hour not even two letters have come out (their meanings understood, utilized and practiced).”

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 1, book 4, chapter 65, report 6

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · موثق · 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/1/4/65/6. 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.