Reports of Ahle Sunnat that Imams are twelve in number

Kitāb al-Ghayba|Volume 1|Book 1|Chapter 25
Kitāb al-Ghayba

Book 1, Chapter 25

Reports of Ahle Sunnat that Imams are twelve in number

91- وبهذا الإسناد عن محمد بن عثمان قال: حدثنا ابن أبي خيثمة قال: حدثني زهير بن معاوية عن زياد بن علاقة وسماك بن حرب وحصين بن عبد الرحمن كلهم عن جابر بن سمرة أن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم قال: يكون بعدي اثنا عشر خليفة… ثم تكلم بكلام لم أفهمه، فقال بعضهم: سألت القوم فقالوا: قال: كلهم من قريش.
H 91 - It is narrated from the same chains of narrators from Muhammad bin Uthman that: Narrated to us Ibn Abi Khaithama that: Narrated to me Zuhair bin Muawiyah from Ziyad bin Alaqa, Samak bin Harb, Husain bin Abdur Rahman Kalham from Jabir bin Samra that the Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم said: After me there would be twelve Caliphs; after that the Prophet mentioned something, which I could not understand. A person in that gathering says: I asked the others [What did the Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم say?] They replied: His Eminence said: All of them would be from Quraish.