The Dictations · Hadith 496 (#Ḥadīth #7)
Chapter 51 | The Fifty-First Assembly, the Assembly of Friday, the [Nineteenth] of Rabi` al-Awwal, 368 AH.
7 - وقال جرير، عن أشعث، عن ابن مسعود، عن النبي (صلى الله عليه وآله)، قال: الخلفاء بعدي اثنا عشر، كعدة نقباء بني إسرائيل (2).
Jarir narrated from Ash`ath from Ibn Mas`ud from the Prophet (s). He said: The caliphs after me are twelve like the number of chiefs of the Children of Israel.
Gradings are classical jarḥ-wa-taʿdīl, name-matched to a rijāl index (not individually re-verified).