حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا سَعْدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى وَ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ أَبِي الْخَطَّابِ وَ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى بْنِ عُبَيْدٍ وَ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَامِرِ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي نَجْرَانَ عَنِ الْحَجَّاجِ الْخَشَّابِ عَنْ مَعْرُوفِ بْنِ خَرَّبُوذَ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا جَعْفَرٍ عليه السلام يَقُولُ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص إِنَّمَا مَثَلُ أَهْلِ بَيْتِي فِي هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ مَثَلُ نُجُومِ السَّمَاءِ كُلَّمَا غَابَ نَجْمٌ طَلَعَ نَجْمٌ.
Narrated to us my father
: Narrated to us Saad bin Abdullah from Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Isa and Muhammad bin Husain bin Abil Khattab and Muhammad bin Isa bin Ubaid and Abdullah bin Aamir bin Saeed from Abdur Rahman bin Abi Najran from Hajjaj Khashshab from Maroof bin Kharrabooz that he said: I heard Aba Ja’far say: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “The example of my Ahlul Bayt in this Ummah is only like the example of the stars in the sky, when one of the stars disappears another one appears.”