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

9ـ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنْ أَبِي الْجَارُودِ عَنْ ابي جعفر (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الله الانْصَارِيِّ قَالَ دَخَلْتُ عَلَى فَاطِمَةَ (عليها السلام) وَبَيْنَ يَدَيْهَا لَوْحٌ فِيهِ أَسْمَاءُ الاوْصِيَاءِ مِنْ وُلْدِهَا فَعَدَدْتُ اثْنَيْ عَشَرَ آخِرُهُمُ الْقَائِمُ (عجل الله تعالى فرجه الشريف) ثَلاثَةٌ مِنْهُمْ مُحَمَّدٌ وَثَلاثَةٌ مِنْهُمْ عَلِيٌّ.
9. Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Muhammad ibn al-Husayn from ibn Mahbub from Abu al-Jarud from Abu Ja‘far from Jabir b. ‘Abdallah al-Ansari who has said the following: “Once I went to see Fatima عليه السلام (daughter of the Holy Prophet صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم and I saw with her a tablet in which the names of the executors of the wills of (Leaders with Divine Authority) from her descendants were written. I then counted them to twelve. The last one’s name was al-Qa’im (the one who will rise with Divine authority). The names of three of them was Muhammad and the names of another three was Ali.”
  • Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi
    Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (6/227)
  • Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi
    Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī