Al-Kāfi - Volume 8


Book 1, Chapter 499

Evidence of his authority...
1 Ḥadīth

عَنْهُ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ فَضَالَةَ بْنِ أَيُّوبَ عَنْ يَحْيَى الْحَلَبِيِّ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ سُلَيْمَانَ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ (عليه السلام) أَنَّهُ قَرَأَ إِنَّ آيَةَ مُلْكِهِ أَنْ يَأْتِيَكُمُ التَّابُوتُ فِيهِ سَكِينَةٌ مِنْ رَبِّكُمْ وَ بَقِيَّةٌ مِمَّا تَرَكَ آلُ مُوسى وَ آلُ هارُونَ تَحْمِلُهُ الْمَلائِكَةُ قَالَ كَانَتْ تَحْمِلُهُ فِي صُورَةِ الْبَقَرَةِ.


499. From him, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Al-Husayn Bin Saeed, from Fazaalat Bin Ayyub, from Yahya Al-Jalby, from Abdullah Bin Suleyman, who has narrated the following: Abu Ja’far (a.s) said after reciting: “Surely the sign of His kingdom is, that there shall come to you the chest in which there is tranquillity from your Lord and residue of the relics of what the children of Musa and the children of Haroun have left, the angels bearing it”(2:248). He (a.s) said: ‘They are described in the Verse of ‘Al-Baqra’.