The Statements and the Explicit Texts on Leadership with Divine Authority) of the Twelve Imams  عليه السلام — report 15

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ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

15ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ غَزْوَانَ عَنْ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ عَنْ ابي جعفر (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) قَالَ يَكُونُ تِسْعَةُ أَئِمَّةٍ بَعْدَ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ تَاسِعُهُمْ قَائِمُهُمْ.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

15. Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from Ibn Abi ‘Umayr from Sa‘id ibn Ghazwan from abu Basir who has said the following. “I heard abu Ja‘far say, ‘after al-Husayn ibn Ali عليه السلام there will be nine Imams. The ninth of them will be Al-Qa’im (the one who will with Divine Authority).”

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 1, book 4, chapter 126, report 15

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · حسن كالصحيح · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (6/231)

Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi · لم يخرجه · Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

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Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/1/4/126/15. 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.