Hadith 587

ay was a woollen cap’’. [58] (Non-Shia source)
And from Al-Hassan Bin Ahmad Bin Saeed Al-Maliky, from Ahmad Bin Saeed Al-Maliky, from Ahmad Bin Abdul Jabbar Al-Sowfy, from Yahya Bin Maeen, from Abdullah Bin Salih, from Lays Bin Sa, ’ad, from Khalid Bin Yazeed, from Saeed, Bin Abu HIlal, from Rabie Bin Sayd who said, ‘We were in the presence of Sayd Al-Asmaie. He said, ‘I heard Abdullah Bin Amro Bin Al-Aas saying, ‘I heard Rasool-Allah-saww saying: ‘There will happen to be twelve caliphs behind me-saww’’. [59]
And it is reported, from Abdullah Bin Is’haq Al-Khurasani, from Ahmad Bin Ubeyd Bin Nasih, from Ibrahim Bin Al-Hassan Bin Yazeed, from Muhammad Bin Adam, from his father, from Shahr Bin Howshab, ‘From Salman-ra having said, ‘We were with Rasool-Allah-saww, and Al-Husayn-asws was upon his-saww thigh, when he-saww stared in his-asws face and said: ‘O Abu Abdullah-asws! You-asws are a chief from the chiefs, and you-asws are an Imam-asws son-asws of an Imam-asws, brother-asws of an Imam-asws, father-asws of nine Imams-asws, their-asws ninth being their-asws Qaim-asws, their-asws, Imam-asws, their-asws most learned, their-asws wisest, their-asws superior’’. [60]
And from Muhammad Bin Usman, from Ismail Bin Is’haq the judge, from Suleyman Bin Harb, from Hammad Bin Zayd, from Amro Bin Dinar, from Jabir Al-Ansari who said, ‘Rasool-Allah-saww said: ‘Allah-azwj Chose from the days, the day of Friday, and from the nights, Night of Pre-determination (Laylat Al-Qadr), and from the months, Month of Ramazan, and He-azwj Chose me-saww and Ali-asws, and Chose from Ali-asws, Al-Hassan-asws and Al-Husayn-asws, and Chose from Al-Husayn-asws Divine Authorities of the worlds, their-asws ninth being their-asws Qaim-asws, their-asws most learned, their-asws wisest’’. [61]
And from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Yahya Al-Attar, from Abdullah Bin Ja’far Al-Himeyri, from Ahmad Bin Hilal, from Muhammad Bin Abu Umeyr, in the year two hundred and forty, from Saeed Bin Gazwan, from Abu Baseer, ‘From Abu Abdullah-asws, from his-asws forefathers-asws having said: ‘Rasool-Allah-saww said: ‘Allah-azwj Chose from the days, the day of Friday, and from the months, the Month of Ramazan, and from the nights, Night of Pre-determination (Laylat Al-Qadr), and Chose from the people, the Prophets-as, and Chose from the Prophets-as, the Rasools-as, and Chose me-saww from the Rasools-as, and Chose from me-saww, Ali-asws, and Chose from Ali-asws, Al-Hassan-asws and Al-Husayn-asws. And He-azwj Chose from Al-Husayn-asws, the successors-asws. They-asws will be negating from the Revelation, alternations of the strayers, and the plagiarism of the nullifiers, and interpretation of the ignoramuses. Their-asws ninth is their-asws hidden, their-asws apparent, their-asws Qaim-asws, and he-asws is their-asws most superior’’. [62]