Tacit and Explicit Testimony as proof of Ali ibn al-Husayn’s  عليه السلام Divine Authority over the people after al-Husayn  عليه السلام — report 1

1. Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Muhammad ibn al-Husayn and Ahmad ibn Muhammad from Muhammad ibn Isma‘il from Mansur ibn Yunus from abu al-Jarud from abu Ja‘far عليه السلام who has said the following. “When al-Husayn ibn Ali عليه السلام was about to leave this world he called his eldest daughter, Fatima and gave her a sealed document and openly before the people his directive will. Ali ibn al-Husayn عليه السلام was ill with some internal illness and the people would see as dying. Fatima then gave the document to Ali ibn al-Husayn عليه السلام . Thereafter, that document, by Allah, came to us, O Ziyad.” The narrator has said that he asked the the Imam عليه السلام . “What is in that document, May Allah take my soul in service for your cause?” The Imam عليه السلام said, “In it there is all that the children of Adam needed from the day Allah created Adam to the end of the world. In it there is the law of penalties and even the rules of compensation for an scratch on a victim’s body.”