The Statements and the Explicit Texts on Leadership with Divine Authority) of the Twelve Imams عليه السلام
Al-Kāfi|Volume 1|Book 4|Chapter 126
Al-Kāfi
Book 4, Chapter 126
The Statements and the Explicit Texts on Leadership with Divine Authority) of the Twelve Imams عليه السلام
12ـ وَبِهَذَا الاسْنَادِ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ الله (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِه) لاصْحَابِهِ آمِنُوا بِلَيْلَةِ الْقَدْرِ إِنَّهَا تَكُونُ لِعَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ وَلِوُلْدِهِ الاحَدَ عَشَرَ مِنْ بَعْدِي.
12. Through same chain of narrators the following is narrated. “the Messenger of Allah once said to his companions, ‘You must believ in the Layla al-Qadr (night of destiny). It is Ali ibn abu Talib عليه السلام and his eleven descendants after me.”
- Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (6/229)
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