Summary 3
Let Us Know Our Imam
(cont’d)
Book: Kitab Al Ghaybah
Author: Mohd Bin Ibrahim Bin Jafar (An Nomani)
Chapters: 04 & 05
Chapter Four
This chapter includes 152 Traditions and 17 Ayats which mention that Imams (a.s.) shall be only twelve and they are appointed by Allah.
In one of the traditions in this chapter; it is narrated that; Amirul Mo’mineen (as) said to ibn Abbas:
“The Night of Predestination comes every year. In this night all that concerns the year and that will occur is revealed. This matter has guardians after the Prophet (s.a.w.a.).”
Ibn Abbas asked, “O Amirul Mo’mineen, who are they?”
He said:
I and eleven ones of my progeny; divinely inspired Imams
(Trad.3)
Chapter Five
This chapter contains 13 Traditions and 2 Ayats. These traditions discuss about those people who have falsely claimed the exalted rank of Imamate and also about those people who have forsaken the rightly appointed Imams (a.s.) and have chosen to follow the false claimants. Imam Sadiq (a.s.) says,
There are three groups of people with whom Allah will not speak on the day of Judgment nor shall He purify them. And He has destined a severe chastisement for them.
The first group is of those people who falsely claim the divine status of Imamate for themselves.
The second group is of those people who reject the divinely appointed Imam.
The third group is of those people who consider the first two groups as correct and believe that Islam is benefited by them.
(Trad. 3)