The Birth of the Possessor (of Divine Authority)  عليه السلام — report 24

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24ـ الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الاشْعَرِيُّ قَالَ كَانَ يَرِدُ كِتَابُ أَبِي مُحَمَّدٍ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) فِي الاجْرَاءِ عَلَى الْجُنَيْدِ قَاتِلِ فَارِسَ وَأَبِي الْحَسَنِ وَآخَرَ فَلَمَّا مَضَى أَبُو مُحَمَّدٍ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) وَرَدَ اسْتِئْنَافٌ مِنَ الصَّاحِبِ لاجْرَاءِ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ وَصَاحِبِهِ وَلَمْ يَرِدْ فِي أَمْرِ الْجُنَيْدِ بِشَيْ‏ءٍ قَالَ فَاغْتَمَمْتُ لِذَلِكَ فَوَرَدَ نَعْيُ الْجُنَيْدِ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

24. It is narrated from al-Husayn ibn Muhammad al-Ash‘ari who has said the following. “The letters of abu Muhammad عليه السلام would come about the matters related to al-Junayd, who killed Fars, abu al-Hassan and others. When he passed away letters about the issues related to abu al-Hassan and his friend continued coming from (Imam al-Mahdi عليه السلام but there was no mention of al-Junayd. I became depressed about it. Thereafter, the news of the death of al-Junayd reached us.”

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 1, book 4, chapter 125, report 24

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · صحيح · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (6/198)

Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi · صحيح · Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 1, p. 60

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Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/1/4/125/24. Al-Kafi by al-Kulayni. English translation attributed by the digital catalogue to Muhammad Sarwar. CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. No endorsement implied.