Book 4, Chapter #126


The Statements and the Explicit Texts on Leadership with Divine Authority) of the Twelve Imams (a.s)

Ḥadīth #12

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12ـ وَبِهَذَا الاسْنَادِ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ الله ﷺ لاصْحَابِهِ آمِنُوا بِلَيْلَةِ الْقَدْرِ إِنَّهَا تَكُونُ لِعَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ وَلِوُلْدِهِ الاحَدَ عَشَرَ مِنْ بَعْدِي.

12. Through same chain of narrators the following is narrated. “the Messenger of Allah once said to his companions, ‘You must believ in the Layla al-Qadr (night of destiny). It is Ali ibn abu Talib (a.s) and his eleven descendants after me.”