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The Sufficient (Vol 1) · Hadith 549 (#Ḥadīth #1)

Chapter 21 | Those whom Allah has called people of knowledge they are the Imams

1ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَبْدِ الله بْنِ الْمُغِيرَةِ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْمُؤْمِنِ بْنِ الْقَاسِمِ الانْصَارِيِّ عَنْ سَعْدٍ عَنْ جَابِرٍ عَنْ ابي جعفر فِي قَوْلِ الله عَزَّ وَجَلَّ هَلْ يَسْتَوِي الَّذِينَ يَعْلَمُونَ وَالَّذِينَ لا يَعْلَمُونَ إِنَّما يَتَذَكَّرُ أُولُوا الالْبابِ قَالَ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ إِنَّمَا نَحْنُ الَّذِينَ يَعْلَمُونَ وَالَّذِينَ لا يَعْلَمُونَ عَدُوُّنَا وَشِيعَتُنَا أُولُو الالْبَابِ.

1. Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father from ‘Abdallah ibn al-Mughirah from ‘Abd al-Mu’min ibn al-Qasim al-Ansari from Sa‘d from Jabir from abu Ja‘far who has said the following about the words of Allah, the Most Holy, the Most High. Say, “Are those who know equal to those who do not know? Only the people of reason take heed.” (39:9) ‘We are the people of knowledge, the people who and it is our enemies who do not know and our followers are the people who take heed and are the people of reason.’”

Gradings are classical jarḥ-wa-taʿdīl, name-matched to a rijāl index (not individually re-verified).