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Part 18-on Eighteen-numbered Characteristics
THE EIGHTEEN CHARACTERISTICS OF THE COMMANDER OF THE FAITHFUL ALI (MGB)
18-1 Abu Abdullah al-Hussein ibn Muhammad al-Ashnani al-Razi in Balkh - narrated that his grandfather quoted Muhammad ibn Qaf’far, on the authority of Abdullah ibn Salih al-Muqar’ri, on the authority of Israel, on the authority of Hakim ibn Jobayr, on the authority of Mujahid, on the authority of Abdullah ibn Shadad ibn al-Had, on the authority of Ibn Abbas**[900]** , “The Commander of the Faithful Imam Ali (MGB) had eighteen characteristics. He would have attained prosperity even if he (MGB) only had one of them. No one in this nation has even one of these eighteen characteristics.”
باب الثمانية عشر
لامير المؤمنين عليه السلام ثمانى عشرة منقبة
18-1حدثنا أبوعبد الله الحسين بن محمد الاشناني الرازي ببلخ قال: أخبرنا جدي قال: حدثنا محمد بن غفار قال: حدثنا عبد الله بن صالح المقرئ، قال: حدثنا إسرائيل، عن حكيم بن جبير، عن مجاهد، عن عبد الله بن شداد بن الهاد، عن ابن عباس قال: كانت لعلي عليه السلام ثماني عشرة منقبة لو لم يكن له إلا واحدة لنجا ولقد كانت له ثماني عشرة منقبة لم تكن لاحد من هذه الامة.
GOD CONSIDERS EIGHTEEN-YEAR OLDS BLAMEWORTHY
18-2 (The compiler of the book narrated) that his father - may God be pleased with him - narrated that Sa’ed ibn Abdullah quoted Ahmad ibn Aba Abdullah al-Barqy who linked it up through a chain of narrators to Aba Abdullah as-Sadiq (MGB) who said, “What is meant by ‘long enough life’ in the following words of the Honorable the Exalted God, ‘Did We not give you long enough life so that he that would should receive admonition?’[901] is eighteen years.”