Hadith 9

(The book) ‘Rijal’ of Al-Kashy – From Ja’far Bin Ahmad, from Ja’far Bin Bashir, from Abu Salama Al Jammal who said, ‘Khalid Al-Bajali entered to see Abu Abdullah-asws while I was in his-asws presence. He said to him-asws, ‘May I be sacrificed for you-asws! I want to describe my religion to you which I am making it a religion of Allah-azwj with it’. And he had said to him-asws before that, ‘I want to ask you-asws’. He-asws had said to him: ‘Ask me-asws, for by Allah-azwj, you will not ask me-asws about anything except I-asws shall narrate to you with it upon that I-asws will not conceal it’. He said, ‘The first of what I begin with is that I testify that there is no god except Allah-azwj Alone. There is no associate for Him-azwj. There isn’t any god apart from Him-azwj’. He (the narrator) said, ‘Abu Abdullah-asws said: ‘Like that is our Lord-azwj. There isn’t any god apart from Him-azwj’. Then he said, ‘And I testify that Muhammad-saww is His-azwj servant and His-azwj Rasool-saww’. He (the narrator) said, ‘Abu Abdullah-asws said: ‘Like that is Muhammad-saww Bin Abdullah-as, an acknowledged one to Him-azwj with the servitude, and His-azwj Messenger to His-azwj creatures’. Then he said, ‘And I testify that Ali-asws, there was an obligatory obedience for him-asws upon the servants like what was for Muhammad-saww upon the people’. He-asws said: ‘Like that was Ali-asws’. He said, ‘And I testify that there was obligatory obedience for Al-Hassan-asws Bin Ali-asws upon the creatures similar to what was for Muhammad-saww and Ali-asws’. He (the narrator) said, ‘He-asws said: ‘Like that was Al-Hassan-asws’. He-asws said: ‘And I testify that there was obligatory obedience for Al-Husayn-asws upon the creatures after Al-Hassan-asws, what had been for Muhammad-saww, and Ali-asws and Al-Hassan‑asws’. He-asws said: ‘Like that was Al-Husayn-asws’. He said, ‘And I testify that Ali-asws Bin Al-Husayn-asws, there was obligatory obedience for him‑asws upon entirety of the creatures like what had been for Al-Husayn-asws’. He-asws said: ‘Like that was Ali-asws Bin Al-Husayn-asws’. He said, ‘And I testify that Muhammad-asws Bin Ali-asws, there was obligatory obedience for him‑asws upon the creatures similar to what was for Ali-asws Bin Al-Husayn-asws’. He (the narrator) said, ‘He-asws said: ‘Like that was Muhammad-asws Bin Ali-asws’. He said, ‘And I testify that you-asws, Allah-azwj has Made you to inherit that, all of it’. He (the narrator) said, ‘Abu Abdullah-asws said: ‘It suffices you now for you have said the truth’. So I was silent. He-asws praised Allah-azwj and extolled upon Him-azwj, then said: ‘Allah-azwj did not Send any Prophet-as having posterity and offspring for him-as except He-azwj Flowed for their last one similar to what had flowed for their first one, and us-asws, we-asws are offspring of Muhammad-saww, and it flows for our-asws last one what flows for our-asws first one, and we-asws are upon manifesto of our Prophet-saww. For us-asws is similar to what is for him-saww of the obligatory obedience’’. [8]