As for the hadith of the pegs, which relates to their knowledge of this topic, know that the pegs through whom God protects the world are four, without a fifth, and they are more specific than al-Abdal, and the two imams are more specific than them, and the Qutb is the most specific of the group, and al-Abdal in this way is a common term. They apply al-Abdal to the one whose blameworthy descriptions are replaced by praiseworthy ones, and they apply it to A special number, and they are forty according to some of them due to a description in which they come together. Among them are those who say their number is seven, and those who say seven. Among us are those who made the seven abdals distinct from the pegs, and among us are those who said that the four pegs are from the abdals, so the abdals are seven, and of these seven four are the pegs, two are the imams, and one is the qutb, and this is the sentence. They are the Abdal, and they said they were called Abdal because if one of t