Muhammad b. al-Hasan b. Ahmad b. al-Walid narrated to us. He said: Al-Husayn b. al-Hasan b. Aban narrated to us from al-Husayn b. Sa`id from Muhammad b. al-Husayn al-Kinani from his grandfather from Abi `Abdillah al-Sadiq . He said: Allah bestowed a book unto His Prophet (s) before death came to him and said: “O Muhammad! This book is your will to the nobleman of your family.” So, he said: “Who is the nobleman from my family, O Gabriel?” So, he said: “`Ali b. Abi Talib.” On the book were seals of gold. So, the Prophet (s) gave it to `Ali and ordered him to open one of its seals and to do what is [instructed] therein. So, he opened a seal, and did what was in it. Then, he gave it to his son al-Hasan , who opened a seal, and did what was in it. Then, he gave it to al-Husayn , who opened a seal, and found therein: “Take a people toward martyrdom, for they will not find martyrdom except with you. Ransom yourself for Allah.” So, he did so, and he gave it to `Ali b. al-Husayn . So, he opened his seal and found therein: “Be silent, stick to your house, and worship Allah until death comes to you.” So, he did so, and he gave it to Muhammad b. `Ali . So, he opened his seal and found therein: “Narrate to the people and give them edicts. Fear none but Allah, for none have a way to you.” Then, he gave it to me, and I opened a seal and I found therein: “Narrate to the people and give them edicts. Spread the knowledge of your Ahl al-Bayt and the honesty of your righteous forefathers. Fear none but Allah, for you are in a protective hedge.” So, I did so. Then, I will give it to Musa b. Ja`far, and then Musa will give it to the one after him; and that will continue until the rise of the Mahdi .

Muhammad b. Musa b. al-Mutawakkil narrated to us. He said: `Abdullah b. Ja`far al-Himyari narrated to us. He said: Ahmad b. Muhammad b. `Isa narrated to us from al-Hasan b. Mahbub from Muqatil b. Sulayman from Abi `Abdillah al-Sadiq . He said: The Messenger of Allah (s) said: I am the Master of Prophets, and my deputy is the Master of Deputies, and his deputies are the masters of deputies. Surely, Adam asked Allah to give him a righteous deputy. So, Allah revealed to him: “I ennobled the prophets with prophethood, then I chose My creation, and I made the choicest of them the deputies.” Then, Allah revealed to him: “O Adam! Depute Sheeth.” So, Adam deputed Sheeth – and he is Habatullah (the Gift of Allah) b. Adam. Sheeth deputed his son Shaban, who is the son of Nazala, the houri that Allah bestowed unto Adam from Paradise; so, he married her to his son Sheeth. Shaban deputed Mujallath. Then, Mujallath deputed Mahuq. Then, Mahuq deputed Ghathmisha. Then, Ghathmisha deputed Ekhnokh – and he is Idris the prophet . Then, Idris deputed Nahur. Then, Nahur gave it to Nuh the prophet . Then, Nuh deputed Sam. Then, Sam deputed `Athamir. Then, `Athamir deputed Bar`ithasha. Then Bar`ithasha deputed Yafith. Then, Yafith deputed Barra. Then, Barra deputed Jafiyya. Then, Jafiyya deputed `Imran. Then, `Imran gave it to Ibrahim the Friend of the Merciful . Then, Ibrahim deputed his son Isma`il. Then, Isma`il deputed Ishaq. Then Ishaq deputed Ya`qub. Then, Ya`qub deputed Yusuf. Then, Yusuf deputed Buthriya’. Then, Buthriya’ deputed Shu`ayb . Then, Shu`ayb gave it to Musa b. `Imran . Then, Musa b. `Imran deputed Yusha` b. Nun. Then, Yusha` b. Nun deputed Dawud . Then, Dawud deputed Sulayman as). Then, Sulayman deputed Asif b. Barkhiyya. Then, Asif b. Barkhiyya deputed Zakariyya . Then, Zakariyya gave it to `Isa b. Maryam . Then, `Isa deputed Sham`un b. Ham`un al-Safa. Then, Sham`un deputed Yahya b. Zakariyya. Then, Yahya b. Zakariyya deputed Mundhir. Then, Mundhir deputed Sulayma. Then, Sulayma deputed Barda. Then, the Messenger of Allah (s) said: Burda gave it to me, and I give it to you, `Ali. You will give it to your deputy, and then your deputy will give it to your deputies from your descendants, one after the other, until it is given to the best of the people of the Earth after you. The Nation will disbelieve over you, and they dispute over you severely. One who is steadfast with you is like one who is established with me, while one who estranges you is in the Fire – and the Fire is the lodging of the disbelievers.

Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Yahya al-`Attar narrated to us. He said: Sa`d b. `Abdullah narrated to us. He said: Muhammad b. `Abd al-Jabbar narrated to me. He said: Al-Hasan b. `Ali b. Abi Hamza narrated to me from his father from Abi Basir. I said to Abi `Abdillah al-Sadiq : What was the supplication of Yusuf in the pit, for we have disagreed regarding it. So, he said: When Yusuf was in the pit and despairing life, he said: “O Allah! If the mistakes and sins have covered my face for You, and if You do not grant my supplication after I have raised my voice [in prayer] to You, then I ask you by the right of Ya`qub, the elderly man. Have mercy on his weakness, and bring us together, for You know of his tenderness towards me and my longing for him.” Then, Abu `Abdillah al-Sadiq wept. Then, he said: I say: “O Allah! If errors and sins have changed my face with You, then do not raise a voice from me to You. Surely, I ask You by You, for there is nothing like You; and I turn to You through Muhammad Your Prophet, the Prophet of Mercy. O Allah, O Allah, O Allah, O Allah, O Allah (Allahumma in kanit al-khataya wal dhunub qad akhlaqat wajhi `indika fa lan tarfa` li ilayk sawtan, fa inni as’aluka bik, fa laysa ka mithlika shay’, wa atawajjahu ilayka bi Muhammad nabiyyika, nabi al-rahma. Ya Allah, ya Allah, ya Allah, ya Allah, ya Allah)!” He said: Then, Abu `Abdillah said: Say this, and increase in it, for surely, I say it frequently at great calamities.

Al-Husayn b. Ahmad b. Idris narrated to us. He said: My father narrated to us from Ya`qub b. Yazid from Muhammad b. Abi `Umayr from Mu`awiya b. Wahb from Abi Sa`id Hashim from Abi `Abdillah al-Sadiq . He said: There are four who will not enter Paradise: (1) The soothsayer, (2) the hypocrite, (3) the wine addict, and (4) backbiter (al-qattat); and he is the gossiper (al-nammam).

Muhammad b. Musa b. al-Mutawakkil narrated to us. He said: Muhammad b. Yahya al-`Attar narrated to us. He said: Sahl b. Ziyad al-Adami narrated to us from Muhammad b. Sinan from `Amr b. Thabit from Habib b. Abi Thabit who raised it. He said: The Messenger of Allah (s) visited his uncle Abi Talib as he lay dead. So, he said: O uncle! You adopted an orphan, you raised a child, and you supported an adult, so may Allah reward you on my behalf. Then, he ordered `Ali to wash him.

`Ali b. Ahmad b. Musa narrated to us. He said: Muhammad b. Abi `Abdillah al-Kufi narrated to us from Musa b. `Imran al-Nakha`i from Ibrahim b. al-Hakam from Muhammad b. al-Fudayl from Mas`ud al-Milani from Habba al-`Urni. `Abdullah b. `Umar saw two men vying over the head of `Ammar . One would say: “I killed him” and the other would say: “I killed him.” So, Ibn `Umar said: You are vying over which one of you will enter the Fire first! Then, he said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (s) say: His killer and his adversary are in the Fire. So, Mu`awiya was told that, so he said: We did not kill him. Surely, the one that brought him has killed him. Shaykh Abu Ja`far b. Babuwayh said: By this logic, then it would have been the Prophet (s) that killed Hamza , and he would have killed those martyred with him, because he (s) is the one that brought them.

By this isnad from Ibrahim b. al-Hakam from `Abdullah b. Musa from Sa`d b. Aws from Bilal b. Yahya al-`Absi. He said: When `Ammar was killed, they came to Hudhayfa, and they said: O Aba `Abdillah! This man was killed, and the people have differed, so what do you say? He said: If you reject [him], then sit down with me. He said: So, he held one of them by the chest and said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (s) say: “Abu’l Yaqthan (Ammar) is on the natural disposition (fitra)” – three times – “he will not leave it until he dies.”

By this isnad from Ibrahim b. al-Hakam from `Ubaydullah b. Musa from `Abd al-`Aziz b. Sayyah from Habib b. Abi Thabit from `Ata’ b. Yasar from `A’isha. She said: The Messenger of Allah (s) said: `Ammar b. Yasir is not given a choice between two things except that he chooses the more challenging of them.

Muhammad b. `Umar al-Hafith al-Baghdadi narrated to us. He said: Ahmad b. `Abd al-`Aziz b. al-Ja`d narrated to us. He said: `Abd al-Rahman b. Salih narrated to us. He said: Shu`ayb b. Rashid narrated to us from Jabir from Abi Ja`far . He said: `Ali delivered a sermon to the people at Siffin on Friday, five days before the battle. So, he said: Praise be to Allah for His great blessings which He bestowed upon all His creation, the righteous and the wretched alike; and for His elaborate proofs over His creation, those who disobey Him and those who obey Him alike. Surely, if He forgives, then that is a bounty from Him, and if He punishes, then that is what proceeded from their own hands – and Allah is not oppressive to the servants. I praise Him for resolving hardships, manifesting blessings, and His help in fulfilling the orders of our religion. I believe in Him and I rely on Him, as Allah is sufficient as a guardian. Then, I bear witness that there is no god but Allah, one without partners, and that Muhammad is His Servant and His Messenger. He sent him with guidance and His religion which He is pleased with, and he was of its nature. He chose him over all the servants to preach His message and His proofs over His creation – and He was gentle and merciful with him. He was the most honoured of Allah’s creation, the most beautiful of them in appearance, the most valiant of them in spirit, the best of them to his parent, the most secure of them in agreements – no Muslim nor disbeliever ever claimed to have been wronged by him. Rather, he would be wronged, and he would forgive and pardon; until he passed away in obedience to Allah, patient over what afflicted him, striving for Allah as He ought to be strived for, worshiping Allah until certainty (death) came to him. His (s) leave of us was the greatest calamity for all the people of the world, the righteous and the wretched alike. He left the Book of Allah among you, which commands you to obey Allah and prohibits you from disobeying Him. The Messenger of Allah (s) gave me a covenant that I will not leave. Your enemies have come to you, and you have recognized who their leader is – he calls them to falsehood – and the cousin of your Prophet (s) is in your midst calling you to the obedience of your Lord and fulfilling the sunna of your Prophet. There is no equal to the one who prayed before every male. None preceded me in prayer except the Prophet of Allah. I am, by Allah, from the people of Badr. By Allah, you are surely upon truth, and the people are surely upon falsehood. We cannot bear their falsehood patiently as they gather to it and split away from their truth. Fight them, and Allah will punish them with your hands. If you do not do that, then Allah will punish them with the hands of others. So, his companions responded to him, and they said: O Amir al-Mu’minin! Go forth to the people if you wish, for by Allah, we live and we die with you. So, he said to them: By He in whose hand is my soul! The Messenger of Allah (s) looked at me while I was striking before him with my sword, then he said: “There is no sword except the dhulfiqar, and there is no youth except `Ali.” Then, he said to me: “O `Ali! You are to me as Harun was to Musa, except there is no prophet after me – by your life, O `Ali, and by your death.” I have never lied, nor have I misled, nor have I forgotten what was entrusted to me. Surely, I am upon a proof from my Lord that he had given to His Prophet (s), and he had given it to me. Surely, I am upon the clear path, and I go quickly upon it. Then, he went forth to the people on Thursday, and they fought from sunrise to sunset. Those people (the enemy) did not pray on that day except for reciting the takbir during the timings of the prayers. That day, `Ali killed five hundred and six individuals from that group of people with his hands. So, the next morning, the people of the Levant called: O `Ali! Fear Allah regarding those who remain. So, they raised the codices [of the Quran] from the tips of their spears.

Al-Hasan b. Muhammad b. Sa`id al-Hashimi narrated to us. He said: Furat b. Ibrahim b. Furat al-Kufi narrated to us. He said: Muhammad b. Thahir narrated to us. He said: Al-Husayn b. `Ali al-`Abdi – known as Ibn al-Qari – narrated to us. He said: Muhammad b. `Abd al-Wahid al-Wasiti narrated to us. He said: Muhammad b. Rabi`a narrated to us from Ibrahim b. Yazid from `Amr b. Dinar from Tawus from Ibn `Abbas. He said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (s) say on the pulpit when he was informed that a group from Quraysh denied that he had called `Ali the Commander of the Faithful: O people! Surely, Allah sent me to you as a messenger, and He ordered me to delegate `Ali as an emir over you. Surely, for whomever I am their prophet, then `Ali is their emir. Allah has put him in charge of you, and He commanded me to inform you of that, so that you may listen to him and obey him. If he orders you to do something, then do it, and if he forbids you from something, then abstain from it. None of you should be in a position of authority over `Ali in my lifetime nor after my death, for surely, Allah has put him over you and has called him the Commander of the Faithful; none before him have been called by this name. I have informed you of what I have been sent with to you regarding `Ali, so whomever obeys me in it will have obeyed Allah, and whomever disobeys me in it will have disobeyed Allah – he will have no argument in his favour with Allah, and his end will be what Allah has described in His Book, “Whoever disobeys Allah and His Messenger and transgresses His limits, He will put him into the Fire to abide eternally therein.” (4:14)

Muhammad b. Ibrahim b. Ishaq narrated to us. He said: Muhammad b. Jarir al-Tabari narrated to us. He said: Al-Hasan b. Muhammad narrated to us. He said: Muhammad b. `Abd al-Rahman al-Makhzumi narrated to me. He said: Muhammad b. Abi Ya`fur narrated to me from Musa b. Abi Ayyub al-Tamimi from Musa b. al-Mughira from al-Dahhak b. Mazahim. He said: `Ali was mentioned in the presence of Ibn `Abbas after his death, so he said: How tragic is what happened to Abi’l Hasan! He passed away, and by Allah, he did not change anything, nor did he exchange anything, nor did he shorten anything, nor did he join anything, nor did he prevent anything, nor did he affect anything except for the sake of Allah. By Allah, this world was less significant to him than the sole of his sandal. He was a lion in battle, an ocean in gatherings, and a sage among the sages. Alas, he has passed onto the exalted ranks.

Muhammad b. Ibrahim b. Ishaq narrated to us. He said: Muhammad b. Jarir al-Tabari narrated to us. He said: Al-Hasan b. Muhammad narrated to us. He said: Al-Hasan b. Yahya al-Dahqan narrated to me. He said: I was in Baghdad with the judge of Baghdad, and his name was Sama`a. A man from the elders of Baghdad visited him and said to him: May Allah rectify the judge. I went on Hajj in one of the past years and I passed through Kufa. I entered its mosque. I stood in the mosque intending to pray when I saw a Bedouin woman before me ... with a blanket over her. She was calling out and saying: O he who is prominent in the heavens! O he who is prominent in the Earths! O he who is prominent in the Hereafter! O he who is prominent in this world! The tyrants and the kings strived to extinguish your light and suppress your remembrance, but Allah refused and exalted your remembrance and illuminated and perfected your light, even if the pagans may be averse. He said: So, I said: O maidservant of Allah! Who is this that you describe with this description? She said: That is Amir al-Mu’minin. He said: So, I said: Which commander of the faithful is he? She said: `Ali b. Abi Talib, without whose wilaya there cannot be monotheism. He said: So, I turned to her, and I did not see anyone.