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مَا أَسْنَدَ مُعَاوِيَةُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ جَعْفَرٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ

tabarani:13843Aḥmad b. Wahbal-ʿArashī Waʾabū Ḥāmid al-Aṣbahānī > Abū Zurʿah ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAbd al-Karīm > Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl b. Jaʿfar b. Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. ʿAbdullāh b. Jaʿfar b. Abū Ṭālib > ʿAmmī Mūsá b. Jaʿfar > Ṣāliḥ b. Muʿāwiyah > Akhīh ʿAbdullāh b. Muʿāwiyah from his father > ʿAbdullāh b. Jaʿfar

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Ali is my root and Jafar is my branch, or Jafar is my root and Ali is my branch."  

الطبراني:١٣٨٤٣حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ وَهْبٍ الْعَرَشِيُّ وَأَبُو حَامِدٍ الْأَصْبَهَانِيُّ قَالَا ثنا أَبُو زُرْعَةَ عُبَيْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْكَرِيمِ قَالَ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ثنا عَمِّي مُوسَى بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ عَنْ صَالِحِ بْنِ مُعَاوِيَةَ عَنْ أَخِيهِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ مُعَاوِيَةَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ جَعْفَرٍ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «عَلِيٌّ أَصْلِي وَجَعْفَرٌ فَرْعِي أَوْ جَعْفَرٌ أَصْلِي وَعَلِيٌّ فَرْعِي»