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1000 Doors of Knowledge Based on Authentic Shī`ah Hadīth

Nader Zaveri 29th Sha`bān 1433

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Table of Contents

Introduction ..................................................................................................................................................... 3

Ṣaḥīḥ (Authentic) Aḥādīth ............................................................................................................................................... 4

Ṣaḥīḥ #1 ......................................................................................................................................................................... 4

Ṣaḥīḥ #2 ......................................................................................................................................................................... 5

Ṣaḥīḥ #3 ......................................................................................................................................................................... 5

Ḥasan (Good) Aḥādīth ..................................................................................................................................................... 7

Ḥasan #1 ....................................................................................................................................................................... 7

Muwaththaq (Reliable) Aḥādīth ...................................................................................................................................... 8

Muwaththaq #1 ............................................................................................................................................................. 8

Muwaththaq #2 ............................................................................................................................................................. 8

Muwaththaq #3 ............................................................................................................................................................. 9

Muwaththaq #4 ........................................................................................................................................................... 10

Bibliography .................................................................................................................................................. 11

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Introduction

يهدي اهلل فال احلمد هلل حنمده ونستعينه ونستغفره ونستهديه ونعوذ باهلل من شرور أنفسنا ومن سيئات أعمالنا، من .مضل له ومن يضلل فال هادي له

وأشهد أن ال إله إال اهلل وحده ال شريك له وأشهد أن حممدا عبده ورسوله انتجبه لواليته واختصه برسالته وأكرمه بالنبوة، (عليهم السالم)أمينا على غيبه ورمحة للعاملني وصلى اهلل على حممد وآله

All praise is due to Allah, we praise Him, and seek from His aid, and His forgiveness, and His guidance. And we seek

refuge in Allah from the impurity that is in ourselves and that which results from our evil actions. Whomever Allah guides,

then he cannot go astray. And whomever He lets go astray, cannot then be guided.

And I bear witness that there is no god but Allah, He is the One without a partner; and I bear witness that Muhammad is

his slave and messenger, He chose him for his guardianship, and distinguished him with His message, and blessed him

with the prophet-hood; (he was) a trustee of His veiled, and a mercy unto the worlds – the blessings of Allah upon him -

Muhammad and his family (عليهم السالم)

One of the commonly known things of both the Shī`ahs and Sunnīs is the great knowledge of Imām `Alī

(عليه السالم) . Even Sunnīs acknowledge that Imām `Alī (عليه السالم) was one of the most knowledgeable, if not the

most knowledgeable companion of the Prophet Muḥammad (صلى هللا عليه وآله وسلم) .

This article will analyze one of the most famous aḥādīth that shows the reason for the vast knowledge of

Imām `Alī (عليه السالم) . The narration I am talking about is before the death of the Prophet (صلى هللا عليه وآله وسلم) ,

he (صلى هللا عليه وآله وسلم) brought Imām `Alī ( السالمعليه) close and Imām `Alī (عليه السالم) says that the Prophet

(صلى هللا عليه وآله وسلم) taught him a door (of knowledge), and that door opens a 1000 more doors, which in turn

opened up a 1000 more doors. This is seen in both the Shī`ah and Sunnī books.

The focus of this article is to analyze the narrations that are found in al-Ṣadūq’s al-Khiṣāl, all of these

narrations are from his al-Khiṣāl. We have analyzed the chains of narrators in depth, and have placed them into

three categories.

1. Ṣaḥīḥ (Authentic) – A connected chain of narrators which contains trustworthy Imāmiyyah Shī`ah

2. Ḥasan (Good) – A connect chain of narrators which contains one or more praised individuals who do

not have tawthīq (proof of trustworthiness), but are praised.

3. Muwaththaq (Reliable) – A connect chain of narrators which contains at least one or more non-

Imāmiyyah Shee`ahs

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Ṣaḥīḥ (Authentic) Aḥādīth

Ṣaḥīḥ #1

أيب عمري عن مرازم بن حكيم األزدي حدثنا أيب و حممد بن احلسن و أمحد بن حممد بن حيىي العطار رضي اهلل عنهم قالوا حدثنا سعد بن عبد اهلل عن يعقوب بن يزيد عن حممد بن عن أيب عبد اهلل ع

«قال علم رسول اهلل ص عليا ع ألف باب يفتح كل باب ألف باب»

Narrated to us my father1 and Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan2 and Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Yaḥya al-`Aṭṭār3 (رضي هللا عنهم)

from them, they said Sa`ad b. `Abd Allāh4 narrated to us from Ya`qūb b. Yazīd5 from Muḥammad b. Abī `Umayr6 from

Murāzim b. Hukaym al-Azdī7 from Abī `Abd Allāh said,

“The Messenger of Allāh taught `Alī 1000 doors, in which each door opens 1000 (more) doors”

1 My father means al-Ṣadūq’s father, he is `Alī b. al-Ḥussayn b. Bābuwayh al-Qummī and he is thiqah (trustworthy) according to al-

Najāshī, al-Tūsī’s Rijāl and al-Fihrist (See: al-Najāshī, Rijāl, pg. 261, person # 648; al-Ṭūsī, al-Rijāl, pg. 432, person # 6191 (in book); al-Ṭūsī, al-Fihrist, pg. 273, person # 393) 2 Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan b. Aḥmad b. al-Walīd, better known as Ibn al-Walīd, is thiqah (trustworthy) according to al-Najāshī (See:

al-Najāshī, al-Rijāl, pg. 383, person # 1042), and al-Ṭūsī (See: al-Ṭūsī, al-Rijāl, pg. 439, person # 6273 & al-Ṭūsī, al-Fihrist, pg. 442, person # 709) 3 Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Yaḥya is majhūl (unknown) (See: al-Khoei, Mu`jam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth, vol. 3, pg. 120, person # 931). He is

unknown even though al-Ṣadūq gave taraḍī (saying (عنه هللا رضي( ) after his name. According to al-Khoei, al-Ṣadūq’s saying of (هللا رضي )عنه after his shuyūkh’s name does not entail trustworthiness or praise. It does not matter if he is majhūl, because there is a و (and)

in between the names of al-Ṣadūq’s shuyūkh, which means he heard it from all of them. 4 Sa`ad b. `Abd Allāh b. al-`Asharī al-Qummī is thiqah (trustworthy) according to al-Najāshi al-Ṭūsī (See: al-Najāshī, Rijāl, pg. 178,

person # 467; al-Ṭūsī, al-Rijāl, pg. 427, person # 6141; al-Ṭūsī, al-Fihrist, pg. 75, person # 306) 5 Ya`qūb b. Yazīd is thiqah (trustworthy) according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, Rijāl, pg. 450, person # 1215), al-Ṭūsī (See: al-Ṭūsī,

al-Rijāl, pg. 393, person # 5797 & al-Ṭūsī, al-Fihrist, pg. 508, person # 807), and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī, al-Khulāṣah, pg. 186, person # 1) 6 Muḥammad b. Abī `Umayr is thiqah (trustworthy) according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, al-Rijāl, pg. 326, person # 887), al-Ṭūsī

(See: al-Ṭūsī, al-Fihrist, pg. 404, person # 618 & al-Ṭūsī, al-Rijāl, pg. 265, person # 5413), al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī’s al-Khulāṣah, pg. 140, person #16). 7 Murāzim b. Ḥukaym al-Azdī is thiqah (trustworthy) according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, al-Rijāl, pg. 424, person # 1138), al-Ṭūsī

(See: al-Ṭūsī, al-Rijāl, pg. 342, person # 5105), and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī, al-Khulāṣah, pg. 170, person # 7)

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Ṣaḥīḥ #2

ن بشري البجلي عن ذريح احملاريب عن حدثنا أيب و حممد بن احلسن رضي اهلل عنهما قاال حدثنا عبد اهلل بن جعفر احلمريي قال حدثين حممد بن احلسني بن أيب اخلطاب عن جعفر ب أيب عبد اهلل ع

«قال جلل رسول اهلل ص عليا ع ثوبا مث علمه ألف كلمة»

Narrated to us my father8 and Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan9 (رضي هللا عنهما), they said `Abd Allāh b. Ja`far al-Himyarī10 said

Muḥammad b. al-Ḥussayn b. Abī al-Khaṭṭāb11 from Ja`far b. Bashīr al-Bajalī12 from Dhurayḥ al-Muḥārabī13 from Abī `Abd

Allāh (عليه السالم) said,

“The Messenger of Allāh (صلى هللا عليه وآله وسلم) covered `Alī with a robe (or, cloak), then he taught him 1000

words.”

Ṣaḥīḥ #3

بن أيب عمري عن منصور بن حازم حدثنا حممد بن احلسن بن أمحد بن الوليد رضي اهلل عنه قال حدثنا حممد بن احلسن الصفار عن يعقوب بن يزيد و إبراهيم بن هاشم عن حممد

عن أيب محزة الثمايل عن علي بن احلسني ع

«ة و األلف الكلمة يفتح كل كلمة ألف كلمةقال علم رسول اهلل ص عليا ع ألف كلمة يفتح كل كلمة منها ألف كلم»

Narrated to us Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan b. Aḥmad b. al-Walīd14 (رضي هللا عنه) said, Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Ṣaffār15

from Ya`qūb b. Yazīd16 and Ibrāhīm b. Hāshim17 from Muḥammad b. Abī `Umayr18 from Manṣūr b. Ḥāzim19 from Abī

Ḥamzah al-Thumālī20 from `Alī b. al-Ḥussayn (عليه السالم) said,

8 Refer to footnote 1.

9 Refer to footnote 2.

10 `Abd Allāh b. Ja`far al-Ḥimyarī is thiqah (trustworthy) according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, al-Rijāl, pg. 219-220, person # 573),

al-Ṭūsī (See: al-Ṭūsī, al-Fihrist, pg. 294, person # 440 & al-Ṭūsī, al-Rijāl, pg. 400, person # 5859), and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī, al-Khulāṣah, pg. 106, person # 20) 11

Muḥammad b. al-Ḥussayn b. Abī al-Khaṭṭāb is thiqah (trustworthy) according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, al-Rijāl, pg. 334, person # 897), al-Ṭūsī (See: al-Ṭūsī, al-Fihrist, pg. 400, person # 608 & al-Ṭūsī, al-Rijāl, pg. 379, person # 5615), and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī, al-Khulāṣah, pg. 141, person # 19) 12

Ja`far b. Bashīr al-Bajalī is thiqah (trustworthy) according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, al-Rijāl, pg. 119, person # 304), al-Ṭūsī (See: al-Ṭūsī, al-Fihrist, pg. 109-110, person # 142), and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī, al-Khulāṣah, pg. 31-32, person # 7) 13

Dhurayḥ (b. Muḥammad) al-Muḥārabī is thiqah (trustworthy) according to al-Ṭūsī (See: al-Ṭūsī, al-Fihrist, pg. 189, person # 279) 14

Refer to footnote 2. 15

Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Ṣaffār is thiqah (trustworthy) according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, al-Rijāl, pg. 354, person # 948), and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī, al-Khulāṣah, pg. 167, person # 2) 16

Refer to footnote 5. 17

Ibrāhīm b. Hāshim is mamdūḥ (praised) according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, al-Rijāl, pg. 413, person # 1101), and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī’s al-Khulāṣah, pg. 5, person #9). Even though is praised, since there is an “and” in between him and Ya`qūb b. Yazīd, this ḥadīth is still considered Ṣaḥīḥ. 18

Refer to footnote 6. 19

Manṣūr b. Ḥāzim is thiqah (trustworthy) according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, al-Rijāl, pg. 16, person # 18)

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“The Messenger of Allāh (عليه السالم) taught `Alī a thousand words, in which each word opens up 1000 (more)

words, and the thousand words, each words opens up a 1000 (more) words.”

20

Abī Ḥamzah al-Thumālī, is Thābit b. Dīnār, and he is thiqah (trustworthy) according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, al-Rijāl, pg. 115, person # 296), al-Ṭūsī (See: al-Ṭūsī, al-Fihrist, pg. 105, person # 138), and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī, al-Khulāṣah, pg. 29, person # 5)

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Ḥasan (Good) Aḥādīth

Ḥasan #1

حلسني بن إبراهيم بن ناتانة و احلسني حدثنا أيب و حممد بن موسى بن املتوكل و حممد بن علي ماجيلويه و أمحد بن علي بن إبراهيم بن هاشم و محزة بن حممد بن أمحد العلوي و ابراهيم بن هاشم عن أبيه عن عبد اهلل بن املغرية عن أيب جعفر حممد بن بن أمحد بن هشام املؤدب و أمحد بن زياد بن جعفر اهلمداين رضي اهلل تعاىل عنهم قالوا حدثنا علي بن إ

علي الثاين ع أنه مسعه

«يقول علم رسول اهلل ص عليا ع ألف كلمة كل كلمة يفتح ألف كلمة»

Narrated to us my father21 and Muḥammad b. Mūsa b. al-Mutawakkil22 and Muḥammad b. `Alī Mājuluwayh23 and Aḥmad

b. `Alī b. Ibrāhīm b. Hāshim24 and Ḥamzah b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-`Alawī25 and al-Ḥussayn b. Ibrāhīm b. Nātānah26

and al-Ḥussayn b. Aḥmad b. Hishām al-Mu’addab27 and Aḥmad b. Ziyād b. Ja`far al-Hamadānī28 (رضي هللا تعالى عنهم)

they said `Alī b. Ibrāhīm b. Hāshim29 from his father30 from `Abd Allāh b. al-Mughīrah31 from Abī Ja`far Muḥammad b.

`Alī al-Thānī (عليه السالم) that he heard him say,

“The Messenger of Allāh (صلى هللا عليه وآله وسلم) taught `Alī 1000 words, each word opens up a 1000 (more)

words.”

21

Refer to footnote 1. 22

Muḥammad b. Mūsa b. al-Mutawakkil is thiqah (trustworthy) according to Ibn Ṭāwūs (See: Ibn Ṭāwūs, Falāḥ al-Sā’il, pg. 158) 23

Muḥammad b. `Alī Mājuluwayh is majhūl (unknown) (See: al-Khoei, Mu`jam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth, vol. 18, pg. 58-59, person # 11429), even though he is al-Ṣadūq’s shuyūkh and he has said (رضي هللا عنه) after his name. As stated earlier, al-Khoei rejects the notion that being the taraḍī (saying (رضي هللا عنه) ) or taraḥḥum (saying (رحمة هللا عليه) ) does not imply trustworthiness or praise for the narrator. Even though he is majhūl (unknown), it does not hurt this specific narration since al-Ṣadūq has taken this ḥadīth from his thiqah shuyūkh. 24

Aḥmad b. `Alī b. Ibrāhīm b. Hāshim is majhūl (unknown) (See: al-Khoei, Mu`jam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth, vol. 2, pg. 164, person # 678). Even though he is majhūl (unknown), it does not hurt this specific narration since al-Ṣadūq has taken this ḥadīth from his thiqah shuyūkh. 25

Ḥamzah b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-`Alawī is majhūl (unknown) (See: al-Khoei, Mu`jam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth, vol. 7, pg. 292, person # 4068). Even though he is majhūl (unknown), it does not hurt this specific narration since al-Ṣadūq has taken this ḥadīth from his thiqah shuyūkh. 26

al-Ḥussayn b. Ibrāhīm b. Nātānah is majhūl (unknown) (See: al-Khoei, Mu`jam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth, vol. 6, pg. 190, person # 3253). Even though he is majhūl (unknown), it does not hurt this specific narration since al-Ṣadūq has taken this ḥadīth from his thiqah shuyūkh. 27

al-Ḥussayn b. Aḥmad b. Hishām al-Mu’addab is majhūl (unknown) (See: al-Khoei, Mu`jam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth, vol. 6, pg. 189-190, person # 3251). Even though he is majhūl (unknown), it does not hurt this specific narration since al-Ṣadūq has taken this ḥadīth from his thiqah shuyūkh. 28

Aḥmad b. Ziyād b. al-Hamadānī is thiqah (trustworthy) according to al-Ṣadūq (See: al-Ṣadūq’s Kamāl al-Dīn, vol. 2, pg. 369) and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī, al-Khulāsah, pg. 19, person # 37) 29

`Alī b. Ibrāhīm b. Hāshim al-Qummī is thiqah (trustworthy) according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, al-Rijāl, pg. 260, person # 680) and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī’s al-Khulāṣah, pg. 100, person #45) 30

Ibrāhīm b. Hāshim is mamdūḥ (praised) according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, al-Rijāl, pg. 16, person # 18), al-Ṭūsī (See: al-Ṭūsī, al-Fihrist, pg. 12, person # 6) and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī’s al-Khulāṣah, pg. 5, person #9) 31

`Abd Allāh b. al-Mughīrah al-Bajalī is thiqah (trustworthy) according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, al-Rijāl, pg. 215, person # 561) and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī’s al-Khulāṣah, pg. 110, person # 34). According to al-Khoei, he believes that `Abd Allāh b. al-Mughīrah was a companion of the 6

th, 7

th and the 8

th Imāms (عليهم السالم) . He did not make `Abd Allāh a companion of Imām Jawād (عليه السالم) , who is

the Imām (عليه السالم) of this ḥadīth. In this ḥadīth, `Abd Allāh uses a specified form of transmission from the Imām (عليه السالم) , he says that “he heard him”. Since he is a trustworthy companion, and he is specified how he has transmitted this ḥadīth, it is safe to say that he was a companion of Imām Jawād as well.

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Muwaththaq (Reliable) Aḥādīth

Muwaththaq #1

أيب جعفر ع حدثنا أيب رضي اهلل عنه قال حدثنا سعد بن عبد اهلل عن حممد بن عيسى بن عبيد عن أمحد بن محزة العدوي عن أبان بن عثمان عن زرارة عن

«قال إن رسول اهلل ص علم عليا ع بابا يفتح ألف باب و يفتح كل باب ألف باب»

Narrated to us my father (رضي هللا عنه)32 said Sa`ad b. `Abd Allāh33 narrated to us from Muḥammad b. `Īsa b. `Ubayd34

from Aḥmad b. Ḥamzah al-`Aduwī35 from Abān b. `Uthmān36 from Zurārah37 from Abī Ja`far (عليه السالم) said,

“The Messenger of Allāh taught `Alī a door, which opens 1000 doors, in which each door opens a 1000

doors.”38

Muwaththaq #2

بن أيب عمري عن إبراهيم بن عبد حدثنا حممد بن احلسن بن أمحد بن الوليد رضي اهلل عنه قال حدثنا حممد بن احلسن الصفار عن يعقوب بن يزيد و إبراهيم بن هاشم عن حممد احلميد عن أيب محزة الثمايل عن أيب جعفر ع قال

«قال علي ع علمين رسول اهلل ص ألف باب يفتح ألف باب»

32

Refer to footnote 1. 33

Refer to footnote 4. 34

Muḥammad b. `Īsa b. `Ubayd al-`Ubaydi is thiqah (trustworthy) according to al-Najāshī’s al-Rijāl (See: al-Najāshī, Rijāl, pg. 333-334, person # 896), and also al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī, al-Khulāṣah, pg. 141-142, person # 22) 35

According to al-Khoei, this Aḥmad b. Ḥamzah is the same Aḥmad b. Ḥamzah b. al-Yas`. (See: al-Khoei, Mu`jam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth, vol. 2, pg. 114, person # 544). Aḥmad b. Ḥamzah al-`Adawī is thiqah (trustworthy) according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, al-Rijāl, pg. 90, person # 224), al-Ṭūsī (See: al-Ṭūsī, al-Rijāl, pg. 383, person # 5631 (in book), and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī, al-Khulāṣah, pg. 14, person # 5). 36

Abān b. `Uthmān al-Aḥmar is thiqah (trustworthy) according to al-Kashī (See: al-Kashī, Ikhtiyār Ma`arifah al-Rijāl, pg. 375, saying # 705(. Abān b. `Uthmān is not an Imāmiyyah (12’er Shī`ah(, rather he was of the Nāwūsiyyah sect according to a Ṣaḥīḥ report in al-Kashī’s Ikhtiyār Ma`arifah al-Rijāl, pg. 352, saying # 660: الناووسية من كان و الكوفة يسكن كان و بجيلة مولى كان و البصرة أهل من أبان كان قال الحسن بن علي حدثني قال مسعود بن محمد

Muḥammad b. Mas`ūd said `Alī b. al-Ḥasan (b. Faḍḍāl( narrated to me and said, Abān is from the people of Baṣrah, and he was a client of the Bajīlah (tribe(, he lived in al-Kūfah, and he was from the al-Nāwūsiyyah.

Since Abān b. `Uthmān is a confirmed non-Imāmī, this drops the grading of this narration from Ṣaḥīḥ (Authentic) to Muwaththaq (Reliable). 37

Zurārah is Zurārah b. A`yan and he is thiqah (trustworthy) according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, al-Rijāl, pg. 175, person # 463), al-Ṭūsī (See: al-Ṭūsī, al-Rijāl, pg. 337, person # 5010 (in book)) 38

This ḥadīth is Muwaththaq (Reliable), even if just one of the narrators is a non-Imāmī

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Narrated to us Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan b. Aḥmad b. al-Walīd39 (رضي هللا عنه) said Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Ṣaffār40 from

Ya`qūb b. Yazīd41 and Ibrāhīm b. Hāshim42 from Muḥammad b. Abī `Umayr43 from Ibrāhīm b. `Abd al-Ḥumayd44 from Abī

Ḥamzah al-Thumālī45 from Abī Ja`far (عليه السالم) said, `Alī (عليه السالم) said,

“The Messenger of Allāh (صلى هللا عليه وآله وسلم) taught me 1000 doors which (each door) opened up 1000 doors.”

Muwaththaq #3

سعد بن عبد اهلل قال حدثين أمحد بن احلسن بن علي بن فضال عن احلسن بن علي بن حدثنا أيب و حممد بن احلسن و أمحد بن حممد بن حيىي العطار رضي اهلل عنهم قالوا حدثنا فضال عن عبد اهلل بكري عن عبد الرمحن بن أيب عبد اهلل قال مسعت أبا عبد اهلل ع

«يقول إن رسول اهلل ص علم عليا ع بابا يفتح له ألف باب كل باب يفتح له ألف باب»

Narrated to us my father46 and Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan (Ibn al-Walīd)47 and Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Yaḥya al-`Aṭṭār48

.from them, they said that Sa`ad b. `Abd Allāh49 narrated to us, he said Aḥmad b. al-Ḥasan b. `Alī b ( رضي هللا عنهم)

Faḍḍāl50 from al-Ḥasan b. `Alī b. Faḍḍāl51 from `Abd Allāh b. Bukayr52 from `Abd al-Raḥmān b. Abī `Abd Allāh53 said, I

heard Abā `Abd Allāh (عليه السالم) say,

39

Refer to footnote 2. 40

Refer to footnote 15. 41

Refer to footnote 5. 42

Refer to footnote 17. 43

Refer to footnote 6. 44

Ibrāhīm b. `Abd al-Ḥumayd al-Asadī, is thiqah (trustworthy) according to al-Ṭūsī (See: al-Ṭūsī, al-Fihrist, pg. 16-17, person # 12). Also, according to al-Ṭūsī Ibrāhīm b. `Abd al-Ḥumayd is a Wāqifī (See: al-Ṭūsī, al-Rijāl, pg. 332, person # 4947 & pg. 351, person # 5195(. Ibrāhīm being part of the Wāqifiyyah does not hurt this narration, because he is still thiqah. It does lower the status of the narration to Muwaththaq (Reliable). 45

Refer to footnote 20. 46

Refer to footnote 1. 47

Refer to footnote 2. 48

Refer to footnote 3. 49

Refer to footnote 4. 50

Aḥmad b. al-Ḥasan b. `Alī b. Muḥammad b. `Alī b. Faḍḍāl is thiqah (trustworthy) according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, al-Rijāl, pg. 80-81, person # 194), and al-Ṭūsī (See: al-Ṭūsī, al-Fihrist, pg. 58, person # 72). He is said to be of the Faṭḥī madhhab, which lowers the rank of this ḥadīth to Muwaththaq (Reliable). 51

al-Ḥasan b. `Alī b. Muḥammad b. `Alī b. Faḍḍāl is thiqah (trustworthy) according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, al-Rijāl, pg. 34, person # 72), al-Ṭūsī (See: al-Ṭūsī, al-Rijāl, pg. 354, person # 5241 & al-Ṭūsī, al-Fihrist, pg. 123-124, person # 164). He is also said to be of the Faṭḥī madhhab. 52

`Abd Allāh b. Bukayr b. A`yun is thiqah (trustworthy) according to al-Ṭūsī (See: al-Ṭūsī, al-Fihrist, pg. 304, person # 464), and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī, al-Khulāṣah, pg. 106-107, person # 24). He is also said to be of the Faṭḥī madhhab. 53

`Abd al-Raḥmān b. Abī `Abd Allāh is thiqah (trustworthy) according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, al-Rijāl, pg. 30, person # 62), and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī, al-Khulāṣah, pg. 113, person # 3)

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“The Messenger of Allāh taught `Alī a door, which opens for him 1000 doors, every door opens for him 1000

(more) doors”

Muwaththaq #4

براهيم بن هاشم عن احلسن بن علي حدثنا أيب و حممد بن احلسن و أمحد بن حممد بن حيىي العطار رضي اهلل عنهم قالوا حدثنا سعد بن عبد اهلل عن أمحد بن حممد بن عيسى و إع بن فضال عن أيب املغراء محيد بن املثىن العجلي عن ذريح بن حممد بن يزيد احملاريب قال مسعت أبا عبد اهلل

«يقول حنن ورثة األنبياء مث قال جلل رسول اهلل ص على علي ع ثوبا مث علمه ألف كلمة كل كلمة يفتح ألف كلمة»

Narrated to us my father54 and Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan55 and Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Yaḥya al-`Aṭṭār56 (رضي هللا عنهم)

from them, they said Sa`ad b. `Abd Allāh57 narrated to us from Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. `Īsa and Ibrāhīm b. Hāshim58

from al-Ḥasan b. `Alī b. Faḍḍāl59 from Abī al-Mughrā’ Humayd b. al-Muthanna al-`Ajalī60 from Dhurayḥ b. Muḥammad b.

Yazīd al-Muḥārabī61 said, I heard Abā `Abd Allāh (عليه السالم) say,

“We are the inheritors of the Prophets”, then he (عليه السالم) said, “The Messenger of Allāh covered `Alī with a

robe (or, cloak), then he taught him 1000 words, each word opens up a 1000 (more) words.”

54

Refer to footnote 1. 55

Refer to footnote 2. 56

Refer to footnote 3. 57

Refer to footnote 4. 58

Refer to footnote 17. 59

Refer to footnote 51. 60

Abū al-Mughrā’ Ḥumayd b. al-Muthanna al-`Ajalī is thiqah (trustworthy) according to al-Najāshī (See: al-Najāshī, al-Rijāl, pg. 133, person # 340), al-Ṭūsī (See: al-Ṭūsī, al-Fihrist, pg. 154, person # 236), and al-Ḥillī (See: al-Ḥillī, al-Khulāṣah, pg. 58-59, person # 1) 61

Refer to footnote 13.

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