Al-Kāfi

Hadith 461
twelve-imams
4ـ عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ الْبَرْقِيِّ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ إِسْمَاعِيلَ عَنِ ابْنِ سِنَانٍ عَنْ حَمْزَةَ بْنِ الطَّيَّارِ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) يَقُولُ لَوْ لَمْ يَبْقَ فِي الارْضِ إِلا اثْنَانِ لَكَانَ أَحَدُهُمَا الْحُجَّةَ أَوْ الثَّانِي الْحُجَّةَ. الشَّكُّ مِنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ.
4. A number of our people has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Barqi from Ali ibn Isma‘il from ibn Sinan from Hamza ibn al-Tayyar who has said the following. “I heard Imam abu ‘Abdallah (a.s.) saying, ‘Would there remain on earth no one except two people one of them will be the person with Divine authority or the second one will be the person with Divine authority (uncertainty is from the narrator).”
Source: Shaykh Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb al-Kulaynī

Similar narrations

  • Al-Kāfi #458 “I heard abu ‘Abdallah (a.s.) saying, ‘Would there remain no one on earth except two persons one of them would certainly be the person with...
  • Al-Kāfi #462 “Would there remain no one except two people one of them will certainly be the Imam.”
  • Kitāb al-Ghayba #134 “If there are no people on the earth except two, one of them will the imam.”
  • Kitāb al-Ghayba #133 “If there are no people on the earth except two, one of them will be al-Hujjah.”
  • Al-Kāfi #442 "I heard al-Ridha (as) say: 'Allah’s holding people accountable remains unjustified without the Imam who would teach people about Him.'"
  • Al-Kāfi #459 “Would there remain only two people on earth, one of them would the person with divine authority over the other.” Muhammad ibn al-Hassan has...
  • Kitāb al-Ghayba #130 “If there are no people on the earth except two men, one of them must be al-Hujjah (Imam al-Mahdi).”
  • Al-Kāfi #460 “If of all the people there will remain only two man one of them will be the Imam. He also said, ‘The last person to die will be the Imam...
All narrations in The Issue that even if only two people would remain on earth one of them would certainly be the Imam, the person with divine authority Browse all books Search more hadith