The Engraving on the Ring
Al-Kāfi|Volume 6|Book 7|Chapter 26
عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ سِنَانٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ كَانَ نَقْشُ خَاتَمِ النَّبِيِّ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) مُحَمَّدٌ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ وَ كَانَ نَقْشُ خَاتَمِ أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ( عليه السلام ) اللَّهُ الْمَلِكُ وَ كَانَ نَقْشُ خَاتَمِ أَبِي ( عليه السلام ) الْعِزَّةُ لِلَّهِ .
1. A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from al-Hassan ibn Mahbub from ‘Abd Allah ibn Sinan who has said the following: “Abu ‘Abd Allah عليه السلام, has said that the engraving on the ring of the Holy Prophet, O Allah, grant compensation to Muhammad and his family worthy of their services to Your cause, said, ‘Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah’. The engraving on the ring of ’Amir al-Mu’minin عليه السلام, said, ‘Allah is the owner’ and the engraving on the ring of my father said, ‘All glory belongs to Allah’.”
- Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (22/361)
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 3, p. 213