A number of our people has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from al-Husayn ibn Sa'id from an-Nadr ibn Suwayd from Ayyub ibn Hurr and 'Imran ibn Ali from abu Basir from abu 'Abdallah (a.s.)
who has said the following. "We are the people well-grounded in knowledge and we are the ones who know how to interpret it."
H 555, Ch. 22, h 2
Ali ibn Muhammad has narrated from 'Abdallah ibn Ali from Ibrahim ibn Ishaq from 'Adallah ibn Hammad from Burayd ibn Mu'awiya who has narrated the following from either one of the Imams
(a.s.) about the words of Allah, Allah, the Most Majestic, the Most gracious. "No one knows its true interpretations except God and those who have a firm grounding in knowledge . . ."
(3:7).
The Holy Prophet is the best among the people wellgrounded in knowledge. Allah, the Most Majestic, the Most gracious, taught him all that He had revealed to him in the form of original text
and in the form of interpretations. Allah, the Most Majestic, the Most gracious, would not reveal anything to him that he would not know the meaning thereof. The successors of the Holy Prophet
(s.a.) after him knew all revelations.
As for those who do not know the interpretations thereof, when the scholar speaks to them with knowledge, they say, "We believe in it, for all of this is from our Lord." The Holy Quran
consists of specific, general, clear, not so clear, abrogating and abrogated statements. The people who are well-grounded in knowledge know all of the Holy Quran."
H %556ch22, h 3
Al-Husayn ibn Muhammad has narrated from MuAlia ibn Muhammad from Muhammad ibn 'Uwarma from Ali ibn Hassan from 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Kathir from abu 'bdallah (a.s.) who has said the
following. "People well-grounded in Knowledge stands for Amir al-Mu'minin Ali (a.s.) and the Imams after him."
