The Account of Zayd Ibn ‘amr Ibn Nufayl

Narrated to us Ja’far bin Ali bin Hasan bin Ali bin Abdullah bin Mughairah Kufi رضي الله عنه that he said: Narrated to me my grandfather Hasan bin Ali from his grandfather Abdullah bin Mughairah from Ismail bin Muslim from As-Sadiq Ja’far bin Muhammad from his father from his ancestors from Ali عليه السلام that he said: The Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم said: “Islam certainly began strange and very soon it will revert to being strange. Thus blessed be the strange ones.”