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-'''Hadith of Twelve Caliphs''' (Arabic:{{ia| حدیث اثنی عشر خلیفة}}) is a [[hadith]] by [[Prophet Muhammad (s)]] according to which his [[caliph]]s or successors are only twelve people, all of whom are from [[Quraysh]].
+'''Hadith of Twelve Caliphs''' (Arabic:{{ia| حدیث إثنی عشر خلیفة}}) is a [[hadith]] by [[Prophet Muhammad (s)]] according to which his [[caliph]]s or successors are only twelve people, all of whom are from [[Quraysh]].
 The hadith was quoted with different wordings, and is taken as reliable by [[Sunni]] scholars of hadiths. The [[Shi'a]]s appeal to this hadith as evidence for the [[imamate]] of their [[twelve Imams (a)]]. Sunni scholars have no consensus over the instances of the twelve caliphs referred to by this hadith.