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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 9

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ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

9ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْوَلِيدِ شَبَابٍ الصَّيْرَفِيِّ عَنْ يُونُسَ بْنِ رِبَاطٍ قَالَ دَخَلْتُ أَنَا وَكَامِلٌ التَّمَّارُ عَلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) فَقَالَ لَهُ كَامِلٌ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ حَدِيثٌ رَوَاهُ فُلانٌ فَقَالَ اذْكُرْهُ فَقَالَ حَدَّثَنِي أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِه) حَدَّثَ عَلِيّاً (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) بِأَلْفِ بَابٍ يَوْمَ تُوُفِّيَ رَسُولُ الله (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِه) كُلُّ بَابٍ يَفْتَحُ أَلْفَ بَابٍ فَذَلِكَ أَلْفُ أَلْفِ بَابٍ فَقَالَ لَقَدْ كَانَ ذَلِكَ قُلْتُ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ فَظَهَرَ ذَلِكَ لِشِيعَتِكُمْ وَمَوَالِيكُمْ فَقَالَ يَا كَامِلُ بَابٌ أَوْ بَابَانِ فَقُلْتُ لَهُ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ فَمَا يُرْوَى مِنْ فَضْلِكُمْ مِنْ أَلْفِ أَلْفِ بَابٍ إِلا بَابٌ أَوْ بَابَانِ قَالَ فَقَالَ وَمَا عَسَيْتُمْ أَنْ تَرْوُوا مِنْ فَضْلِنَا مَا تَرْوُونَ مِنْ فَضْلِنَا إِلا أَلْفاً غَيْرَ مَعْطُوفَةٍ.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

9. Ali ibn Muhammad has narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad from Muhammad ibn al-Walid, Shabab al-Sayrafi fromYunus ibn Ribat who has said that once he and Kamil al-Tammar went to see abu ‘Abdallah عليه السلام . Kamil said to the Imam عليه السلام , “‘May Allah take my soul in service for your cause, there is a hadith which so and so son of so and so has narrated.” The Imam عليه السلام said, “Say and read it.” He (Kamil) then said, “He so and so narrated to me that the Holy Prophet narrated a thousand chapter to Ali on the day the Messenger of Allah died. Each of those chapters open a thousand chapter. The total becomes a Million chapter.” The Imam عليه السلام said, “That is how it happened.” I then said, “‘May Allah take my soul in service for your cause, has this become manifest to your followers and those who love you?” The Imam عليه السلام said, “O Kamil, only one or two chapters may have become so.” Kamil has said that the Imam عليه السلام then said, “You perhaps may not be able to narrate all our excellence and virtues. You do not narrate from our excellence and virtue but only a scattered thousand.”
Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 1, book 4, chapter 65, report 9

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · ضعيف · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (3/289)

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

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Arabic witness SHA-256: 1a67abae6163dca3a33684c4ec8ceb276d216eb6177966f555e9489a6dfb19df

Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/1/4/65/9. 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.

Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/1/4/65/9. 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.

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