Kamaaluddin wa Tamaamun Ni’ma 1 Kamaaluddin wa Tamaamun Ni’ma (Perfection of faith and completion of divine favor) Shaykh as-Sadooq Abi Ja’far Muhammad bin Ali bin al- Husain Babawahy Qummi Translated by: Sayyid Athar Husain S.H. Rizvi Published by: Kamaaluddin wa Tamaamun Ni’ma 2 Kamaaluddin wa Tamaamun Ni’ma 3 Table of Contents Preface .................................................................................................................... 6 A Brief Biography of the Author ........................................................................ 6 Valuable Writings ............................................................................................. 10 Teachers and Students of the Author ................................................................ 11 Death and Place of Burial ................................................................................. 12 Kamaaluddin Wa Tamaamun Ni’ma .................................................................... 13 Editions of this Book ........................................................................................ 13 Introduction ...................................................................................................... 14 Caliphate before Creation ................................................................................. 16 Necessity of Obeying the Caliph ...................................................................... 17 No one can choose a caliph except the Almighty Allah ................................... 21 Need of only one caliph in every period of time .............................................. 22 Need of existence of a caliph ............................................................................ 23 Necessity of Imam’s Infallibility ...................................................................... 23 Why the Almighty Allah ordered angels to prostrate before Adam (a.s.)? ...... 26 Necessity of Marefat (recognition) of the Mahdi (a.t.f.s.) ................................ 33 Proofs of Occultation (Ghaibat) and wisdom behind it .................................... 34 Reply to an objection ........................................................................................ 37 Second proof of similarity between prophets ................................................... 38 Reply to the objection ....................................................................................... 41 Kaisaniyah sect ................................................................................................. 44 Narrations regarding demise of Muhammad bin Hanafiyyah .......................... 48 Invalidity of stand of Nawoosi and Waqifi sects about occultation ................. 49 Narrations regarding the martyrdom of Imam Musa bin Ja’far (a.s.) ............... 49 Claim of Waqifiya sect about occultation of Imam Askari (a.s.) ..................... 51 Some Narrations proving the martyrdom of Imam Hasan bin Ali bin Muhammad al-Askari (a.s.) .............................................................................. 51 Reply to an objection ........................................................................................ 55 Reply to the second objection ........................................................................... 57 Objections of Ibne Bishar ................................................................................. 60 Statement of a Mashayakh in refutation of the Zaidiyyah Sect ........................ 71 Kamaaluddin wa Tamaamun Ni’ma 4 Argument for an Imam in occultation who will reappear and fill the earth with justice and equity .............................................................................................. 73 First objection of Zaidiyyah sect ...................................................................... 75 Second objection of Zaidiyyah sect .................................................................. 76 Third objection of Zaidiyyah sect ..................................................................... 78 Fourth objection of Zaidiyyah sect ................................................................... 81 Fifth objection of Zaidiyyah sect ...................................................................... 83 Sixth objection of Zaidiyyah sect ..................................................................... 85 Reply ................................................................................................................. 85 Seventh objection of Zaidiyyah sect ................................................................. 86 Eighth objection of Zaidiyyah sect ................................................................... 88 Doubts of opponents and their removal ............................................................ 89 Author’s debate with an atheist in the court of Rukn ad-Daula ........................ 93 Chapter One ........................................................................................................ 134 Regarding the Occultation (Ghaibat) of Prophet Idrees (a.s.) ............................ 134 Chapter Two ....................................................................................................... 139 Reappearance (Zuhoor) of Prophet Nuh (a.s.) .................................................... 139 Chapter Three ..................................................................................................... 143 Regarding the Occultation (Ghaibat) of Prophet Salih (a.s.) .............................. 143 Chapter Four ....................................................................................................... 145 Regarding the Occultation (Ghaibat) of Prophet Ibrahim (a.s.) ......................... 145 Chapter Five ....................................................................................................... 149 Regarding the Occultation (Ghaibat) of Prophet Yusuf (a.s.) ............................ 149 Chapter Six ......................................................................................................... 154 Regarding the Occultation (Ghaibat) of Prophet Musa (a.s.) ............................. 154 Chapter Seven ..................................................................................................... 161 Account of the death of Prophet Musa (a.s.) and account of occultation of Successors and Divine Proofs till the period of Prophet Isa (a.s.) ...................... 161 Chapter Eight ...................................................................................................... 167 Prophecies made by Isa (a.s.) about the advent of Prophet Muhammad Mustafa (s.a.w.s.) .............................................................................................................. 167 Chapter Nine ....................................................................................................... 170 Report of Salman Farsi (r.a.) regarding the advent of Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.s.) .............................................................................................................. 170 Chapter Ten ........................................................................................................ 174 Report about Quss bin Saidatul Iyadi ................................................................. 174 Chapter Eleven ................................................................................................... 178 Regarding the report of Tubba............................................................................ 178 Chapter Twelve .................................................................................................. 180 Report about Abdul Muttalib and Abu Talib ...................................................... 180 Chapter Thirteen ................................................................................................. 185 Report of Saif bin Zi Yazan ................................................................................ 185 Chapter Fourteen ................................................................................................ 189 Kamaaluddin wa Tamaamun Ni’ma 5 Report of Bahira the monk ................................................................................. 189 Chapter Fifteen ................................................................................................... 194 Report of Khalid bin Usaid bin Abil Ees and Taleeq bin Sufyan bin Umayyah Regarding what the great monk enroute to Syria said about the Prophet ........... 194 Chapter Sixteen .................................................................................................. 196 Report of Abul Moheeb, the recluse ................................................................... 196 Chapter Seventeen .............................................................................................. 198 Report of Satih the Soothsayer ........................................................................... 198 Chapter Eighteen ................................................................................................ 201 Report of Yusuf the Jew about the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.s.) ................................ 201 Chapter Nineteen ................................................................................................ 203 Report Ibne Hawash al-Muqbil of Damascus ..................................................... 203 Chapter Twenty .................................................................................................. 204 Report of Zaid bin Amr bin