Hadith 161

The book ‘Sifaat Al Shia’ of Al Sadouq, from Ali Bin Ahmad Bin Abdullah Bin Ahmad Bin Abu Abdullah Al Barqy, by his chain, ‘From Al-Sadiq-asws having said: ‘One who acknowledged seven things, so he is a Momin’, and he mentioned the belief in the Raj’at’’. [203]
And it is reported as well in it, from Ibn Ubdous, from Ibn Quteyba, from Al Fazl Bin Shazan, ‘From Al-Reza-asws having said: ‘One who acknowledged with the Oneness of Allah-azwj’ – and he-asws continued the speech up to he-asws said: ‘And acknowledged with the Raj’at, and the two Mut’ahs, and believes in the Mi’rah (ascension), and the questioning in the grave, and the Fountain, and the intercession, and creation of the Paradise and the Fire, and the Bridge, and the Scale, and the Resurrection, and the Gathering, and the Rewards, and the Reckoning, so he would be a true Momin, and he would be from our-asws Shias, People-asws of the Household’’. [204]
APPENDIX
Know, O my brother, I don’t think you should hesitate after what has been paved and clarified for you in the words regarding the Raj’at which the Shias are united upon it in entirety of the times and it is well-known between them like the sun in the middle of the day, to the extent that they are organising it in their poems and they are arguing with it against the opponents in entirety of their cities, and the censuring of the opponents against them regarding that, and their affirming it in their books and their literary works. From them is Al-Razi, and Al Neshapuri and others, and the speech of Ibn Abi Al Hadeed has passed where he clarified the doctrine of the Imamites regarding that, and had it not been the fear of useless prolongation, I would have referred to many of their speeches regarding that. Ibn Abi Al Hadeed said in commentary of his-asws words: ‘Allah-azwj would Destroy the clan of Umayya until He-azwj Makes them as debris’, ‘If it is said, ‘Who is this promised man? ’ It would be said, ‘As for the Imamites, they are claiming that he-ajfj is their Imam-ajfj, the twelfth, and he-ajfj is a son-ajfj of a maid, her-as name is ‘Narjis’. And as for our companions (Mu’tazilites), they are claiming that he is a Fatimid to be born in the future times for a mother of children (maid) and he doesn’t exist now. If it is said, ‘So who would be existing from the clan of Umayya during that time until he-asws, may the greetings be upon him-asws, said regarding their affairs what he-asws said, from the revenge taken by this man from them? ’
It is said, as for the Imamites, they are saying (believing) in the Raj’at, and they are claiming that a group will be returning exactly from the clan of Umayya and others when their awaited Imam-ajfj appears, and he-ajfj will cut off the hand of the people and their legs, and blind the other of some of them, and crucify another people, and avenge from the enemies of Progeny‑asws of Muhammad-saww, upon them-asws be the greetings, the preceding ones and the delayed ones’. The speech – refer to V 51 P 121 of this print of ours. And how can a Momin doubt in the reality of the Pure Imams-asws in what has recurred from them-asws in nearly two hundred Ahadith explicitly reported by more than forty from the mighty trusted ones, and the scholars of the world in more than fifty of their compilations, like the trusted one of Kulayni, and Al Sadouq Muhammad Bin Babuwayh, and the Sheikh Abu Ja’far Al Tusi, and the Seyyid Al Murtaza, and Al Najashy, and Al Kashy, and Al Ayyashi; And Ali Bin Ibrahim, and Suleym Al Hilali, and the Sheikh Al Mufeed, and Al Karajaky, and Al Numany, and Al Saffar, and Sa’ad Bin Abdullah, and Ibn Qawlawiya, and Ali Bin Abdul Hameed, and the Seyyid Ali Bin Tawoos, and his son author of the book ‘Zawaid Al Fawaid’, and Muhammad Bin Ali Bin Ibrahim, and Furaat Bin Ibrahim, and compiler of the book ‘Al Tanzeel Wa Al Tahreef (Ibn Sayyari), and Abu Al Fazl Al Tabrasi; And Ibrahim Bin Muhammad Al Saqafi, and Muhammad Bin Al Abbas Bin Marwan, and Al Barqi, and Ibn Shehr Ashub, and Al Hassan Bin Suleyman, and Al Qutub Al Rawandy, and Al Alama Al Hilli, and the Seyyid Baha Al Deen Ali Bin Abdul Kareem, and Ahmad Bin Dawws Bin Saeed, and Al Hassan Bin Ali Bin Ab