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 4

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ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

4ـ وَفِي نُسْخَةِ الصَّفْوَانِيِّ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَكَمِ عَنْ سَيْفٍ عَنْ أَبِي بَكْرٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) أَنَّ عَلِيّاً صَلَوَاتُ الله عَلَيْهِ حِينَ سَارَ إِلَى الْكُوفَةِ اسْتَوْدَعَ أُمَّ سَلَمَةَ كُتُبَهُ وَالْوَصِيَّةَ فَلَمَّا رَجَعَ الْحَسَنُ دَفَعَتْهَا إِلَيْهِ.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

4. Ahmad ibn Muhammad has narrated from Ali ibn al-Hakam from Sayf from Abu Bakr from Abu ‘Abdallah عليه السلام 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-Hasan عليه السلام returned to Medina she delivered all of them to him.”

Source & scholarly assessments

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

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

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

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