Notable Points and Comprehensive Ahadith about Wilaya (Leadership with Divine Authority)
Al-Kāfi|Volume 1|Book 4|Chapter 109
Al-Kāfi
Book 4, Chapter 109
Notable Points and Comprehensive Ahadith about Wilaya (Leadership with Divine Authority)
5ـ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ بَزِيعٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْفُضَيْلِ عَنْ أَبِي الصَّبَّاحِ الْكِنَانِيِّ عَنْ ابي جعفر (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) قَالَ سَمِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ وَالله إِنَّ فِي السَّمَاءِ لَسَبْعِينَ صَفّاً مِنَ الْمَلائِكَةِ لَوِ اجْتَمَعَ أَهْلُ الارْضِ كُلُّهُمْ يُحْصُونَ عَدَدَ كُلِّ صَفٍّ مِنْهُمْ مَا أَحْصَوْهُمْ وَإِنَّهُمْ لَيَدِينُونَ بِوَلايَتِنَا.
5. Muhammad b. Yahya, from Ahmad b. Muhammad b. ‘Isa from Muhammad b. Isma'il b. Bazi‘, from Muhammad b. al-Fudayl, from Abu al-Sabbah al-Kinanii from Abu Ja'far عليه السلام who said: I heard him say: “By Allah, there are seventy rows of angels in the sky. If all the people on Earth were to gather, they could not count the number of each row of angels, and indeed, they believe in our Wilayah.”
- Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (5/164)
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