Hadith Silsilat al-Dhahab: Difference between revisions

This hadith is famously called Hadith Silsilat al-dhahab (The Golden Chain Hadith) because of its chain of narrators whom are all infallibles, starting from Imam al-Rida (a) who quotes the seventh Imam, who narrates from the sixth Imam and goes all the way to the first Imam who himself has obtained it from the Noble Prophet (s) who has received it from God. Therefore, this narration is a [[hadith qudsi]].

After narrating this hadith in his Kitab al-Tawhid, al-Shaykh al-Saduq writes, “The meaning of what the Imam (a) said is that one of the conditions of [confessing to] “There is no god but God” is confessing to his Imamate and that he was appointed by God as the Imam who must be obeyed.”