Hadith 14

‘I said to Abu Abdullah-asws, ‘I debated a people and I said, ‘Don’t you know that Rasool-Allah-saww, he-saww is the Divine Authority from Allah-azwj upon the creatures? So, when Rasool-Allah-saww was gone, who was the Divine Authority from after him-saww? ’ They said, ‘The Quran’. So I debated regarding the Quran and there it was so that the Murjiites, and the Haruriya, and the atheist those who do not believe, were (all) contending regarding it, until the man was overcome. So, I recognised that the Quran cannot happen to be a Divine Authority except by a custodian what he says regarding it of anything which was true. I said, ‘So who is the custodian of the Quran? ’ They said, ‘It used to be Abdullah Bin Masoud, and so and so, and so and so, and so and so knew’. I said, ‘All of it? ’ They said, No’. I could not find anyone for whom it could be said that he knew all of it except Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws, and whenever that was the thing between the people, and this one said, ‘I don’t know’, and this one said, ‘I don’t know’, and this one said, ‘I don’t know’, and this one said, ‘I don’t know’. So, I testified that Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws was a custodian of the Quran, and obedience to him-asws was a necessity, and he-asws was the Divine Authority after Rasool-Allah-saww upon the people, all of them, and whatever he-asws said regarding the Quran, it is true’. He-asws said: ‘May Allah-azwj have Mercy on you’. I kissed his-asws head and said, ‘Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws did not go away until he-asws left a Divine Authority to be from after him-asws, just as Rasool-Allah-saww had left a Divine Authority from after him-saww, and that the Divine Authority after Ali-asws is Al-Hassan-asws Bin Ali-asws. And I testify upon Al-Hassan-asws Bin Ali-asws that he-asws was the Divine Authority and that obeying him-asws is Obligatory’. He-asws said: ‘May Allah-azwj have Mercy on you’. I kissed his-asws head and I said, ‘I testify upon Al-Hassan-asws Bin Ali-asws did not go away until he-asws left a Divine Authority to be from after him-asws just as Rasool-Allah-saww and his-asws father-asws had left, and that the Divine Authority after Al-Hassan-asws, is Al-Husayn-asws Bin Ali-asws, and obedience to him-asws was Obligatory’. He-asws said: ‘May Allah-azwj have Mercy on you’. I kissed his-asws head and said, ‘And I testify upon Al-Husayn-asws Bin Ali-asws, he-asws did not go away until he-asws l