Hadith Silsilat al-Dhahab: Difference between revisions

[[Ishaq b. Rahawayh]] says, “When [[Imam al-Rida (a)]] reached [[Nishabur]] on his journey to [[Khurasan]], after he decided to leave for [[Ma'mun]], the penmen gathered and said, “O son of the [[The Prophet (s)|Messenger of God (s)]], are you leaving our city without giving us a statement to benefit from?” Upon this request, the Imam (a) brought his head out of his wagon and said: “I heard my father [[Imam al-kazim(a)|Musa b. Ja'far (a)]] say that I heard my father [[Imam al-Sadiq (a)|Ja'far b. Muhammad (a)]] say that I heard my father [[Imam al-Baqir (a)|Muhammad b. 'Ali (a)]] say that I heard my father [[Imam al-sajjad (a)|'Ali b. al-Husayn (a)]] say that I heard my father [[Imam al-Husayn (a)|Husayn b. 'Ali (a)]] say that I heard my father [[Amir al-Mu'minin]] [['Ali (a)|'Ali b. Abi Talib (a)]] say that I heard [[The Prophet (s)|God's Messenger (s)]] say that I heard [[Gabriel]] say that I heard God say that 'the sentence 'There is no god but God' is my stronghold, thus whomever enters my stronghold shall be safe from my punishment.'” As the Imam's (a) caravan began to move, he said aloud: “With its conditions, and I myself am one of those conditions.”

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 [[Imam al-Kazim (a)|seventh Imam]], who narrates from the [[Imam al-Sadiq (a)|sixth Imam]] and goes all the way to the [[Imam Ali (a)|first Imam]] who himself has obtained it from [[The Prophet (s)|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.”

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