حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْقَاسِمِ عَتَّابُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْحَافِظُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ صَاعِدٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ الْفَضْلِ وَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ سَوَّارِ بْنِ وَرَّاقٍ النُّفَيْلِيُ قَالُوا حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْغَفَّارِ بْنُ الْحَكَمِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مَنْصُورُ بْنُ أَبِي الْأَسْوَدِ عَنْ مُطَرِّفٍ عَنِ الشَّعْبِيِّ قَالَ عَتَّابٌ وَ حَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْأَنْمَاطِيُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا يُوسُفُ بْنُ مُوسَى قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا جَرِيرٌ عَنْ أَشْعَثَ بْنِ سَوَّارٍ عَنِ الشَّعْبِيِّ قَالَ عَتَّابٌ وَ حَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْحَرَّانِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَيُّوبُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْوَزَّانُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ مَسْلَمَةَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَشْعَثُ بْنُ سَوَّارٍ عَنِ الشَّعْبِيِّ كُلُّهُمْ قَالُوا عَنْ عَمِّهِ قَيْسِ بْنِ عُبَيْدٍ قَالَ أَبُو الْقَاسِمِ عَتَّابٌ وَ هَذَا حَدِيثُ مُطَرِّفٍ قَالَ: كُنَّا جُلُوساً فِي الْمَسْجِدِ وَ مَعَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ فَجَاءَ أَعْرَابِيٌّ فَقَالَ فِيكُمْ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ نَعَمْ أَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ فَمَا حَاجَتُكَ قَالَ يَا عَبْدَ اللَّهِ أَخْبَرَكُمْ نَبِيُّكُمْ ص كَمْ يَكُونُ فِيكُمْ مِنْ خَلِيفَةٍ قَالَ لَقَدْ سَأَلْتَنِي عَنْ شَيْءٍ مَا سَأَلَنِي عَنْهُ أَحَدٌ مُنْذُ قَدِمْتُ الْعِرَاقَ نَعَمْ اثْنَا عَشَرَ خَلِيفَةً عِدَّةَ نُقَبَاءِ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ. قَالَ أَبُو عَرُوبَةَ فِي حَدِيثِهِ نَعَمْ عِدَّةُ نُقَبَاءِ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ. قَالَ جَرِيرٌ عَنْ أَشْعَثَ عَنِ ابْنِ مَسْعُودٍ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ص قَالَ: الْخُلَفَاءُ بَعْدِي اثْنَا عَشَرَ كَعِدَّةِ نُقَبَاءِ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ.
Narrated to us Abul Qasim Attab bin Muhammad Hafiz: Narrated to us Yahya bin Muhammad bin Saaid: Narrated to us Ahmad bin Abdur Rahman bin Fadl and Muhammad bin Abdullah bin Sawwar and ibn Warraq Nufaili that they said: Narrated to us Abdul Ghaffar bin Hakam: Narrated to us Mansur bin Abil Aswad from Mutarraf from Shabi that he said: Attab said: narrated to us Ishaq bin Muhammad Anmati: Narrated to us Yusuf bin Musa: Narrated to us Jareer from Ashath bin Sawwar from Shabi that he said: Attab said: narrated to us Husain bin Muhammad Harrani: Narrated to us Ayyub bin Muhammad Wazzan: Narrated to us Saeed bin Muslimah: Narrated to us Ashath bin Sawwar from Shabi, all of them said: from his uncle Qais bin Ubaid: Abul Qasim Attab said - and this is the report of Mutarrif - he said: “We were sitting in the Masjid and in our company was Abdullah bin Masud when a Bedouin arrived and asked: Is there Abdullah [ibn Masud] among you? Abdullah said: Yes, I am Abdullah. What do you want? He said: O Abdullah, did your Prophet inform about the number of caliphs among you? Abdullah bin Masud replied: You have asked something no one has ever asked before since I came to Iraq. Yes, twelve caliphs. Same as the number of the chiefs of Bani Israel.”
