Tacit and Explicit Testimony as proof of al-Hassan ibn Ali’s  عليه السلام Divine Authority over the people after Amir al-Mu’minin Ali  عليه السلام — report 3

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ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

3ـ عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَكَمِ عَنْ سَيْفِ بْنِ عَمِيرَةَ عَنْ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الْحَضْرَمِيِّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي الاجْلَحُ وَسَلَمَةُ بْنُ كُهَيْلٍ وَدَاوُدُ بْنُ أَبِي يَزِيدَ وَزَيْدٌ الْيَمَامِيُّ قَالُوا حَدَّثَنَا شَهْرُ بْنُ حَوْشَبٍ أَنَّ عَلِيّاً (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) حِينَ سَارَ إِلَى الْكُوفَةِ اسْتَوْدَعَ أُمَّ سَلَمَةَ كُتُبَهُ وَالْوَصِيَّةَ فَلَمَّا رَجَعَ الْحَسَنُ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) دَفَعَتْهَا إِلَيْهِ.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

3. A number of our people has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from Ali ibn al-Hakam from Sayf ibn ‘Amayra from Abu Bakr al-Hadrami who has said that al-Ajlah, Salamah ibn Kuhayl, Dawud ibn Abu Yazid and Zayd al-Yamami all narrated from Shahr ibn Hawshab who has said the following: “When Ali عليه السلام was about to leave for Kufa he left in Umm Salama’s trust his books and his will. When al-Hassan عليه السلام returned to Medina she delivered all of them to him.”

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 1, book 4, chapter 66, report 3

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · مجهول · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (3/293)

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

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Arabic witness SHA-256: 88e91af51e66b4d3b769436cc12a10a6b90561bcf74c41178b1fd46aaddd75c6

Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/1/4/66/3. 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.