The Issue that the Earth at no time is without a Person with Divine Authority
Al-Kāfi|Volume 1|Book 4|Chapter 5
Al-Kāfi
Book 4, Chapter 5
The Issue that the Earth at no time is without a Person with Divine Authority
10ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْفُضَيْلِ عَنْ أَبِي حَمْزَةَ قَالَ قُلْتُ لابِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) أَ تَبْقَى الارْضُ بِغَيْرِ إِمَامٍ قَالَ لَوْ بَقِيَتِ الارْضُ بِغَيْرِ إِمَامٍ لَسَاخَتْ.
10. Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from Muhammad ibn ‘Isa from al-Fudayl from ibn abu Hamza who has said the following. “I asked abu ‘Abdallah عليه السلام, ‘Can the earth be left without the Imam?’” The Imam عليه السلام replied, “ Were to remain without Imam it would obliterate its inhabitants.”
- Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (2/297)
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