1. My father, may Allah grant him mercy, said: We were told by Sa’d bin Abdullah, from Salam bin Khattab, from Ali ibn Muhammed al-Ash’ath, from Dahqan, from Ahmad bin Yazid, from Ali bin Ja’far, from his brother, Musa ibn Ja’far, peace be upon them both, that he said: Our Shi’a are only the cores, the nobles, the people of cottage and those of good birth. Ali bin Ja’far said: So I asked him about the interpretation of that, and he said: The cores are from Quraish, the nobles are from the Arabs, the people of cottages are from the Muwali [1] and those with good birth from among the mass.