Al-Kāfi

Hadith 184
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عَنْهُ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ الْمُبَارَكِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ جَبَلَةَ عَنْ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ عَمَّارٍ أَوْ غَيْرِهِ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ (عليه السلام) نَحْنُ بَنُو هَاشِمٍ وَ شِيعَتُنَا الْعَرَبُ وَ سَائِرُ النَّاسِ الْأَعْرَابُ.
183. From him, from Yahya Bin Al-Mubarak, from Abdullah Bin Jabalat, from Is’haq Bin Ammaar or someone else who said: Abu Abdullah (asws) said: ‘We (asws) are the Clan of Hashim (as), and our (asws) Shiites are the Arabs, and the rest of the people are Bedouins’.
Source: Shaykh Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb al-Kulaynī

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